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LOWER CLASS LANGUAGE
(what the prison class and menial class speak)

The inability to speak Standard English keeps blacks out of most white collar jobs.

Linguistics 101 African American English
Explores differences between Standard American English and AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE)
• Historical Review
• Words and Phrases
• Sentence Patterns
• Sound Patterns
• Bibliography

The grammar of urban African American Vernacular English
"Although the roots of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE) were no doubt established in the rural South, its twentieth century development as a sociocultural variety is strongly associated with its use in non-Southern urban areas."

African American Vernacular English
Abstract
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) causes reading problems for majority of the African American students who speak it. There is a strong concern of whether African Americans will perform adequately on the job front, due to low reading levels (Rickford, 1999). Although AAVE is a dialect shared by many African Americans, they need to be able to have proficient Standard English in order to move forward and become successful in America (Rickford, 1999). African Americans have been, and still are performing poorly in reading and have very low academic achievement throughout the nation (Rickford, 1999). Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) Ecological Systems theory was use to determine possible factors contributing to the reading problems that AAVE speaking children face when trying to learn Standard English. For the purposes of this inquiry, of the four systems in the theory only the microsystems and mesosystems were analyzed. In order to gain a healthy understanding of African American Vernacular English and majority of its topics, an extensive amount of literature review and scholarly articles read and analyzed. The results discovered from the literature were that there are three main reasons why AAVE speaking students have reading problems.

"EBONICS" AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH
Ebonics, a portmanteau word combining ebony and phonics

African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes
An apologist for "Ebonics" and ghetto dialect. Examples: misuse of the copula, negation can be multiple-marked (double negative), negative inversion, dropped consonants, etc.

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