It leads to the assumption that no two individuals speak or write exactly alike
leads back to theme, no two people sound alike. differs from an idea of a standard american english.
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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dialects of the same language.
different dialects of english all have their own quirks.
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mastery over all its idioms and expressions.”
idioms are standard part of language, they offer a depiction of what you'd like to say, something that's often used in non standard forms of american english like aave.
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Kory Stamper, author
Person who the author is discussing
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Even twins aren’t exactly alike in their language – because language is learned, not inherited.
main idea behind this article/theme.
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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many salient features of African American Vernacular English were not innovated, but are instead the legacy of an older stage of English.
conclusion, it shows that we should look past our biased lens of AAVE but appreciate the historical significance.
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pattern, known as the “northern subject rule,”
name to the pattern AAVE follows.
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linguistic ancestry
is this how linguists also research old languages like proto-indo-european.
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key characteristic of linguistic enclaves is that they preserve older features.
isolated populations that have little contact to the outside world means their language would be slower to change from the time they were brought there to present day.
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late 18th and early 19th centuries, thousands of formerly enslaved African Americans settled in small enclaves in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Canada
history of where enslaved african americans were brought to.
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direct offshoots of an older stage of English — that of the British who colonized the United States.
informs the reader where their research took them.
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chalk these features up to “bad” English
chalking up features of a different form of english as bad and incorrect.
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linguistic features now denounced as grammatically incorrect
This is the argument they are going to try to disprove later in the article.
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