African American Vernacular English

What is AAVE?

• a variety of English that has been called Ebonics

• ar archaic form of British dialects

• a system with patterns of grammar, vocabulary and phonology

• all of them

Is African-American Vernacular English spoken all the time?

• No

• Yes

Answer explanation

Not all African-Americans speak AAVE.

People who speak AAVE may not speak it all the time.

Is AAVE still spoken today?

• yes

• no

Think about the people who speak AAVE. Where did you meet with it?

• music

• films

• social media

• all of them

How many hypotheses are there about the emergence of AAVE?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• none

What does the Creole Hypothesis postulate?

• It postulates a creole origin of AAVE.

• AAVE appeared due to hip-hip music.

What do the new debates say?

• The hypotheses are different and unreal.

• The hypotheses do not exclude each other.

Answer explanation

The creole and the dialectologist hypothesis do not exclude each other: there may had been a (British) dialect influence on a prior creolized variety.

What do the new debates say?

• The hypotheses are different and unreal.

• The hypotheses do not exclude each other.

Answer explanation

The creole and the dialectologist hypothesis do not exclude each other: there may had been a (British) dialect influence on a prior creolized variety.

What hypothesis did Labov and the other formulate?

What is AAVE?

• a language

• a dialect

• a pidgin