Query on AAVE

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:54 PM +0000 3/17/02, Herbert Stahlke wrote:
>Larry,
>
>Check Huang, Xiaozhao, A study of African-American
>vernacular English in America's "Middletown": evidence
>of linguistic convergence. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press,
>2000.  Huang compares a teenage and a fiftyish
>population from '83 and '93.  His early '80s samples are
>tapes of AA speakers in their 50s that are archived at
>the Ball State Center for Middletown Studies.  His
>early '80s teenage samples are from films in the
>Middletown series that was broadcast on PBS in 1980 or
>81.  He has some striking findings on language change
>over that ten year period.
>
>Herb

Sounds great.  I see Yale's copy is checked out, but my student can recall it.

L