AAVE vs UE / AAVE corpus

[Beverly Flanigan]

Kristen,
Since you're in Ohio, you might want to contact Don Winford at Ohio State's
Linguistic Dept.  He's heading up a corpus-collecting team there and would
welcome your participation, I suspect.  (Brian Joseph, chair of the dept.,
would also like to know of your plans.)

At 11:54 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Collegues --
>
>I have recently heard AAVE called Urban English -- is anyone else familiar
>with this new title?  Has it made it into any publications that you've seen?
>
>Also -- I am in the process of making inquiries into collecting a corpus of
>AAVE.  Such a project would involve collecting spoken texts (those in
>existence or otherwise), and preparing them for the types of research
>projects that they might be used for.  I am currently looking for potential
>advisors and collaborators on the project.  This corpus might be used to
>examine grammatical or lexical phenomena across a large database of language
>that is tagged for context, speaker background features, and other features
>of interest to those involved in the project.  I believe such a resource
>would be a valuable contribution to the field; I have been involved in
>corpus analyses of non-native speakers, British speakers, American speakers,
>and it seems an incredible pity that more corpora of AAVE are not currently
>available.
>
>Comments?
>
>Kristen Precht
>Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics
>Department of English
>Kent State University
>kprecht at kent.edu <mailto:kprecht at kent.edu>


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