Ebonis Vita Ottonis Episcopi Bambergensis (Classic Reprint)

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Nejjari W., Gerritsen M., van Hout R., Planken B. (2019). Refinement of the matched-guise technique for the study of the effect of non-native accents compared to native accents. Lingua 219 Loudermilk B. C. (2015). “ Implicit attitudes and the perception of sociolinguistic variation” in Responses to Language Varieties: Variability, Processes and Outcomes. Well, why does this matter? As flippantly as we can talk of language myths, put simply, what’s widely considered bad grammar, or bad language, can have truly problematic repercussions for how many people live, especially for those who speak dialects that aren’t considered standard, mainstream, or prestigious. It still is very much the case that many people, without thinking, can harbor negative assumptions about the different ways other people speak. This can have a profound effect on how whole speech communities can live, learn, work, and even play. Getting job interviews, renting an apartment, raising kids to have better options and advantages, even getting through an unexpected, fraught interaction with the police— all these things can be made much harder simply because of a particular accent or dialect.

As it turns out, however, the main thrust of the Oakland proposal was overwhelmingly supported by linguists, and the approach it was recommending – using children’s home dialect to help teach standard English – had proven successful in other places in the past. This ideological position would have several practical implications — teachers with knowledge of Ebonics could possibly be paid more, funds would be used to teach all teachers Ebonics, and this knowledge of Ebonics would be applied in teaching students Standard English. Instead of treating Ebonics as a lazy form of English, it would be recognized as a legitimate form of language in its own right, with patterns and systematicity equal to those of Standard English. Students who speak Ebonics at home would not be required to learn Standard English seemingly by osmosis, but rather would be taught the specifics of the standard dialect explicitly. Morales A. C., Scott M. L., Yorkston E. A. (2012). The role of accent standardness in message preference and recall. J. Advert. 41Andreoletti C., Leszczynski J. P., Disch W. B. (2015). Gender, race, and age: the content of compound stereotypes across the life span. Int. J. Aging Hum. Dev. 81 Find sources: "Habitual be"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Stepanova E. V., Strube M. J. (2012b). What’s in a face? The role of skin tone, facial physiognomy, and color presentation mode of facial primes in affective priming effects. J. Soc. Psychol. 152 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

Aspect: In language, aspect tells you how something happens. For example, he be dreaming does not mean “he is dreaming”; rather, it means “he tends to dream,” or maybe even “he dreams often.” It does not tell us that he is dreaming right now, but that he dreams regularly. Criticism of that hypothesis stems from the fact that there is no evidence that be has been used as a habitual marker either in the past or today in Caribbean creoles of English. [4] Instead, Caribbean English uses the preverbal does to mark habitualness. They use be only as filler between does and the sentence's predicate. One exception noted by several of those interviewed is Jacob Heilbrunn’s piece in The New Republic, which blended opinion and reporting. John Baugh has stated [10] that the term Ebonics is used in four ways by its Afrocentric proponents. It may: Faul F., Erdfelder E., Buchner A., Lang A.-G. (2009). Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: tests for correlation and regression analyses. Behav. Res. Methods 41Stepanova E. V., Strube M. J. (2009). Making of a face: role of facial physiognomy, skin tone, and color presentation mode in evaluations of racial typicality. J. Soc. Psychol. 149 Tense: The is in he is dreaming is an example of present tense. It tells you that something is happening in the present. In the case of he was dreaming, the was tells you that something happened in the past. When the verb to be is used in this way (“is, was, are, were,” etc.) we call it the copula. Krauss R. M., Freyberg R., Morsella E. (2002). Inferring speakers’ physical attributes from their voices. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 38 Hughes S. M., Miller N. E. (2016). What sounds beautiful looks beautiful stereotype: the matching of attractiveness of voices and faces. J. Soc. Pers. Relat. 33

Available online at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/journal/cgi-bin/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2012/09/Phillips_SocSci_2010.pdf [ Google Scholar] Lecci L., Myers B. (2008). Individual differences in attitudes relevant to juror decision making: development and validation of the Pretrial Juror Attitude Questionnaire (PJAQ). J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 38 Rakiæ T., Steffens M. C., Mummendey A. (2011a). Blinded by the accent! The minor role of looks in ethnic categorization. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 100 Sweetland, Julie (2002), "Unexpected but Authentic Use of an Ethnically-Marked Dialect", Journal of Sociolinguistics, 6 (4): 514–536, doi: 10.1111/1467-9481.00199

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Written by David J. Ramirez and edited by several others, this book is a must-have for serious learners of AAVE. This book covers not only what AAVE is but also what it isn’t. The book is primarily aimed at answering major educational issues such as the legitamecy of AAVE’s use in the standard classroom. This book is not recommended for those who want a simple overview of the linguistics, but for those who are serious about learning not only about the language structure but the controversy in public education surrounding the dialect. To explore how perceived speech stereotypicality influences face selections, we first ran a mixed effects logistic regression on participants’ chosen faces (Low or High Phenotypicality). The initial model included voices (Low or High Stereotypicality) as a fixed effect and participants and the individual face pairs entered as random intercepts. We also ran a mixed effects regression on choice confidence with the same fixed and random effects to see if speech stereotypicality had any undue influence on participants’ confidence in their face selections. These distinctive Ebonics pronunciations are all systematic, the result of regular rules and restrictions; they are not random 'error'--and this is equally true of Ebonics grammar. For instance, Ebonics speakers regularly produce sentences without present tense is and are, as in "John trippin" or "They allright". But they don't omit present tense am. Instead of the ungrammatical *"Ah walkin", Ebonics speakers would say *"Ahm walkin." Likewise, they do not omit is and are if they come at the end of a sentence--"That's what he/they" is ungrammatical. Many members of the public seem to have heard, too, that Ebonics speakers use an 'invariant' be in their speech (as in "They be goin to school every day"); however, this be is not simply equivalent to is or are. Invariant be refers to actions that occur regularly or habitually rather than on just one occasion. What do people think of Ebonics? Percent of low and high phenotypicality face selections after listening to low and high stereotypicality speakers. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. I grew up in the poorest section of the poorest section of Georgetown, Guyana, the nation’s capital. I grew up speaking what is called conservative Guyanese creole, a stigmatized language variety that was and is considered broken English by most Guyanese and which was not what the teachers wanted when I went to school. Guyana was a former British colony, and English was the official language, and so kids in school weren’t allowed to speak Creole, or what we call Creolese. It was banned. So, of course, it was very difficult for people like me to succeed in school and elsewhere in the society that required English. But some of us did, and managed to learn standard English enough to pass exams and to get scholarships to go to college.