African American English

Research Article| December 01 2023 2. African American English J. Michael Terry; J. Michael Terry j. michael terry is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, and adjunct in the Department of African, African American, and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written on topics such as the semantics of African American English (AAE) tense and aspect markers, quantifying the use of style-shift in African American adolescents, and how dialectal difference affects AAE-speaking second graders’ performance on tests of mathematical reasoning. Email: jmterry@unc.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa J. Green Lisa J. Green lisa j. green is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching interests include syntax, syntactic variation, child language acquisition and development of African American English, and linguistics and education. She is the author of African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) and Language and the African American Child (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011). Email: lgreen@linguist.umass.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2023) 108 (1): 26–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11036836 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. Michael Terry, Lisa J. Green; 2. African American English. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2023; 108 (1): 26–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11036836 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyThe Publication of the American Dialect Society Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.