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They Be Taggin, Don't They?: The Acquisition Of Invariant Be, Janice Jackson, Eliane Ramos, Fred Hall, D'Jaris Coles, Harry Seymour, Mike Dickey, Kimberly Broderick, Bart Hollebrandse
They Be Taggin, Don't They?: The Acquisition Of Invariant Be, Janice Jackson, Eliane Ramos, Fred Hall, D'Jaris Coles, Harry Seymour, Mike Dickey, Kimberly Broderick, Bart Hollebrandse
Laying the groundwork for the DELV (Precursor literature, dissertations, joint work of the Working Groups prior to the conceptualization of the DELV)
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".
Questions After Stories: Supplying Context And Removing It As A Variable., Jill G. De Villiers, Thomas Roeper
Questions After Stories: Supplying Context And Removing It As A Variable., Jill G. De Villiers, Thomas Roeper
Laying the groundwork for the DELV (Precursor literature, dissertations, joint work of the Working Groups prior to the conceptualization of the DELV)
In the philosophy of science considerable attention has been paid to the question of how to be sure that a given experimental result can be taken as supporting evidence for a theory. How do we escape from this dilemma in our linguistic research? How can we know that a certain set of results is evidence on behalf of a theory and not due to the auxiliary assumptions required for the test? We have tried to do acquisition studies on aspects of reasonably refined linguistic theories, so that there are other kinds of evidence already articulated in their defense. In our …