Spelling and dialect: Comparisons between speakers of African American vernacular English and White speakers |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Rebecca?TreimanEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) College of Education and Human Development, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-4232, USA |
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Abstract: | One characteristic of African American vernacular English (AAVE) is final obstruent devoicing, where the final consonant of
a word likerigid is pronounced more like /t/ than /d/. To determine whether this dialect characteristic influences adults’ spelling, African
American and White college students spelled words such asrigid andballot, pronounced by either a speaker of their own dialect or a speaker of the other dialect. African Americans, especially those
who often devoiced final /d/, were more likely than Whites to confused andt. Both African American and White spellers made mored/t confusions when the words were spoken by an African American experimenter than by a White experimenter. Thus, the different
phonological systems of AAVE and White speakers can cause them to make different types of spelling errors. Discussions of
AAVE and literacy have focused on its syntax, but its phonology must also be considered. |
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