FW: Comment #7: up to date on AAE

[Burns, Rebecca]

Lisa Green's research and textbook on African American English may be a first place to start. Green is at the University of Mass. at Amherst (in the Dept. of Linguistics) where the department of Communication & Speech Disorders has committed many years and large collaborative projects to AAE under the leadership of Harry Seymour--the most significant of which is a language screen and diagnostic instrument which relies on deeper, common grammatical features of English for assessment of delay or disorder--rather  than the usual surface features which usually show delay when there is none--just difference. The instrument is called the DELV: Diagnosing English Language Variation (published by Psych. Corps).
 
The literature is huge as are the points of interest--your student may easily become overwhelmed, but certainly excited.
 
Best wishes to you both.
 
Rebecca Burns (Ph.D. Linguistics)
University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
College of Education
burnsmr at sar.usf.edu
 
 
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:32:16 -0500
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Can anyone update me on recent research looking at the AAE/Ebonics?  I
haven't read anything on it and I have a grad student interested and I just
wanted to know what is new.  Can anyone help?  f


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