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They Be Taggin, Don't They?: The Acquisition of Invariant Be
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In: Laying the groundwork for the DELV (Precursor literature, dissertations, joint work of the Working Groups prior to the conceptualization of the DELV) (1996)
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Abstract:
Does African-American English (AAE) have a separate grammar from Standard American English (SAE)? AAE has a number of distinctive features, several of which have been discussed extensively in the sociolinguistic literature: the variable use of third-person singular -s; the absence of plura -s; the variable use of copula; and others. (See Labov, 1966, 1969a, b, and Fasold, 1972 for discussion.) Perhaps the most distinctive feature of AAE is habitual or invariant "be".
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URL: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/aae_groundwork/5 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=aae_groundwork
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