AAVE, Black English, Creole Experts
You can forget words, but not the language: Children learn languages much more readily than adults, but if contact with the language is lost, knowledge will completely fade. But it turns out the capacity to recognize it won't. Hindi and Zulu have some basic phonetic components that don't appear in English, making it difficult for English speakers to recognize some words. Researchers tested some people in the UK that had contact with these languages when young, but hadn't seen it in so long, they flunked basic vocabulary tests. It turns out they could still pick up the phonetic differences that their peers would miss.
Professor
John Rickford
LINGUISTICS | EXPERTS | AAVE
Dr. Rickford has worked on AAVE since the early 1970s and he is also a creolist and speaker of Guyanese Creole
BOOKS BY JOHN RICKFORD
Writings On The "Ebonics" Issue
Dialect Speakers & Reading Dialect Readers Curriculum
Written Creole: Genuine or Hoax?
Dr. Rickford Speaking on this Video
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John R. Rickford, Russell J.
Rickford
(Contributor)
American Book Award for 2000 from the Before Columbus Foundation.
"That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not
necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon
English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music."
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LINGUISTICS | EXPERTS
AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS
- Expert on the Language and Literature of the African Diaspora: Negerhollands Virgin Islands English Creole
- Expert on the Language and Literature of the African Diaspora
- Negerhollands and Virgin Islands English Creole
- Robin Sabino & Claudia Escobar 2005. A quantitative study of 17th century English in West Africa. A paper presented at SECOL 72, April 7- 9, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
- Pontoppidan, Eric. (1881). Some notes on the Creole Language of the Danish West Indian Islands. Journal for Ethnologie 13, 130-8.
- Pontoppidan, Eric. 1887. Det dansk-vestindisk Kreolsprog. Tilskueren. 4:295-303.The Danish West Indian Creole Language.
- Valls, Lito. (1981). What a Pistarkle! A Dictionary of Virgin Islands English
Creole. St. John, U.S.V.I.
Dr. Gilbert A. Sprauve E-mail: gsprauv@uvi.edu
(Off.) 340-693-1342 U.S.V.I.
Dr. Gene Emanuel E-mail: gemanue@uvi.edu
(Off.) 340-693-1348 U.S.V.I.
Language and Literature : Virgin Islands (U.S.) picked by Library of
congress subject experts.
A listing of web sites that provide links to resources relating to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The most
important
source for bibliography of books and articles concerning the U.S. Virgin Islands.
There is more information available about early language in the Cul De Sac under the American Virgin Islands Curriculum
Professors
- PROF. JOHN BAUGH
POLICY EXPERT
(Stanford U.) (Baugh is a leading educational and sociolinguist with a lifetime's experience of AAVE) - PROF. Salikoko S.
Mufwene
My research of the past twenty years has been primarily on morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of Gullah, African-American Vernacular English, Jamaican Creole, and English. However, in recent years I have focused more on the development of "Atlantic creoles" (lexified by European languages), Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, and on questions of language evolution. - Professor David Sutcliff
"Situating United States African American Vernacular English in Linguistic Space" see Fabula Software and The Voices of Living History - Fabula can be used to create stories in any pair of languages
- Professor Jeff Siegel
Stigmatized and Standardized Varieties in the Classroom: Interference or Separation? ARTICLE - PROF.
JIM
WILCE
linguistic anthropologist at Northern Arizona University collects references to AAVE literature with comments - PROF. WILLIAM LOBOV
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology [p] 215.898.4912
Director of the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Labov, more than any linguist, started the scientific study of African American urban speech in a sociolinguistic manner:
Coexistent systems in African-American English - PROF KENN HARPER
Lived in the Arctic for over thirty years in Inuit communities in the Baffin Region and in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, development officer, historian, linguist, and businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, the Eskimo language of the eastern Canadia Arctic and has written extensively on northern history and the Inuktitut language. He presently lives in Iqaluit, capital of the new Arctic territory of Nunavut, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Listen to an exclusive excerpt of Harper reading from "Give Me My Father's Body." - PROFESSOR CECILE MCHARDY Independent Scholar Gullah Culture
- PROF. ANNA CELIA ZANTELLA
Spanish and English = Spanglish - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER DEREK WALCOTT
- MICHEL
DEGRAFF
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Linguistic theory; syntax; morphology; language change/creation; "Creole" studies; linguistics-ideology interface.
Morphology in Creole Genesis A prolegomenon PDF To appear in: Michael Kenstowicz, ed.,_Ken Hale: A Life in Language_ Cambridge MASS.: MIT Press
The paper evaluates widely believed received notions about Creole morphology. These notions span the entire course of Creole studies and a variety of theoretical approaches. The paper also revisits some of the historical foundations of Creole studies and their relationships to contemporary sociological concerns in, and about, Creole communities. - Dr. Roger Abrahams - Roots of Rap
Abrahams, Roger D. "Black Talking on the Streets." Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Eds. Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer. London: Cambridge UP, 1974. 240-62.- Abrahams, Roger D. "The Training of the Man of Words in Talking Sweet." Language in Society 1 (1972): 15-29.
- Abrahams, Roger D. Rapping and Capping: Black Talk as an Art. New York: Basic Books, 1970.
- Abrahams, Roger D. Talking Black. Rowley MA: Newbury, 1976.
- Abrahams, Roger. "Negotiating Respect: Patterns of Presentation among Black Women." Women and Folklore. Ed. Claire Farrer. U of Texas P, 1975.
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PROF. JOHN FIGUEROA (Deceased)
A poet, teacher and champion of Caribbean culture
EXPERT MIKE CASSERLY - DEPT OF EDUCATION
LINGUISTICS European Creole Expert
- Hans den Besten
(Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam)http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/hil/index.html - Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux
Professeur à l'Université de Provence
Laboratoire "Parole et Langage"
Groupe Européen de Recherches en Langues Créoles
Analyse Linguistique de textes Littéraires - Hein van der Voort
- Cefas van Rossem
Cefas van Rossem & Hein van der Voort "Die Creol Taal. 250 years of Negerhollands texts." Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 1996.Hans den Besten
Instituut voor Algemene Taalwetenschap
Linguistics Dept.
U of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel..: 31-20-525 3849
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