Multicultural populations Flashcards
In AAE, “tool” would be pronounced as _______, because of __________ .
too’; /l/ phoneme is lessened or omitted
In AAE, door would be pronounced as _______ , because of ________ .
doah; /r/ phoneme is lessened or omitted
In AAE, consonant clusters are _______ , so the word desk would be pronounced as ______ .
reduced; des’
In AAE, the word ask becomes “aks” (axe) because of a phonological process called ______
metathesis
In AAE, the word “liked” becomes li-tid, because _________ .
verbs ending in /k/ changed
In AAE, bed is pronounced “bet”, rug is pronounced “ruk”, and cab is pronounced “cap”, because of
final consonant devoicing
In AAE, pen is pronounced “pin” and ten is pronounced “tin” because of ____
i/e substitution
In AAE, valentine is pronounced “balentine” and vest is pronounced “best”, because of ________ .
b/v substitution
In AAE, find is pronounced “fahnd” and oil is pronounced “ol”, because of ________ .
diphthong reduction
In AAE, walking is pronounced “walkin” and thing is pronounced “thin”, because of _______ .
n/ng substitution
In AAE, bad is pronounced “ba” and good is pronounced “goo” because
final consonant deletion
In AAE morphology and syntax, the following is omitted:
possessive s; plural s; third person singular -s; present tense forms of auxiliary have; past tense endings; to be forms such as is or are
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of they are having fun, they may say ________, because of
They is having fun; present tense used regardless of person and number
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of They are having a picnic, they would say _______, because of ______
They is having a picnic; person-number do not agree with past and present forms of to be verbs
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “She does not want any”, they would say, ________, because of _______
She does not want none, because of substitution of any for none
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of I have known her for 5 years, they would say, _______, because of ________
I been known her; perfective construction; been used to indicate that an action took place in the distant past
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “Today she is working”, they would say, “________”, because of ______
Today she be working; the form be used as the main verb
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of He is often cheerful, they would say, “_______”, because of ______.
He be cheerful; indicate actions and events over time
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “My dog has fleas”, they would say, “_____”, because of _______ .
My dog, he got fleas; pronouns being used to restate the subject
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “Those cars are antique”, they would say, “_____”, because of _______ .
Them cars are antique, them substituted for those
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of She is going to help us, they would say, “____”, because of _______.
She gonna help us; gonna represents future tense
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “Where is the house?”, they would say, “______, because of ______ .
“Where is the house at?”; at used at the end of where questions
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “I might have done it.”, they would say, “______”, because of ________ .
I might could have done it; additional auxiliaries often used
In AAE morphology and syntax, instead of “It does make sense.”, they would say, “_______”, because of ______ .
It do make sense; does replaced by do
In SIE, “doze” would be pronounced as “dose”, because
final consonants are often devoiced
In SIE, “very” would be pronounced as “_____”, because of _______
bery; b/v substitution
In SIE, “Shirley” becomes ________ because of _________
Chirley; ch/sh substitution
In SIE, “this” becomes _____ or _____, because of ________
dis or zis; d or z for voiced th since there is no voiced th in Spanish
In SIE, “think” becomes _______ because of _________
tink; t/voiceless th since there is no voiceless th in Spanish
In SIE, skate becomes “______”, because of _________
eskate; schwa sound inserted before word-initial consonant clusters
In SIE, “hold” becomes “_____”, because of _________
‘old; /h/ silent in words beginning with /h/
In SIE, “Julie” becomes ______, because of ______ .
Yulie; no j sound in Spanish so the y sound may be used instead
In SIE, pig becomes _____, because of __________
peeg; long vowel e substituted for short vowel i
In SIE, pat becomes _____ , because of _______ .
pet; short vowel e for long vowel a
In SIE, the sounds /t/, /d/, and /n/ may be _______
dentalized
In SIE, they may omit the following sounds from words:
a,e,i,o,u,l,r,s,n,d
In SIE, instead of “The green house is big.”, the sentence would be
“The house green is big”; adjective comes after the noun
In SIE, which grammatical morphemes are omitted?
s- plural; possessive s; 3rd person present tense; articles; past tense -ed;
In SIE, instead of This cake is bigger, the sentence would be
The cake is more big; superiority is demonstrated by using more instead of superlatives
In SIE, instead of I don’t have any more, the sentence would be
I don’t have no more; double negatives are used
In SIE, instead of I don’t touch the cat, the sentence would be
I no touch the cat; no is used in place in don’t
In SIE, instead of, “He drives his motorcycle very fast”, the sentence would be
“He drives very fast his motorcycle”; adverb comes after the verb
In SIE, instead of “I am twelve years old”, the sentence would be
I have twelve years old; have is used instead of a copula
In Asian American English, which grammatical morphemes are omitted?
past-tense morphemes; possessives; plurals; articles (or overgeneralization); conjunctions; auxiliary verb do; have; prepositions; copulas;
In Asian American English, instead of He didn’t go by himself, the sentence would be
He didn’t went by himself; past-tense double marking
In Asian American English, instead of They don’t have any books, the sentence would be
They don’t have no books; double negative
In Asian American English, instead of “I messed it up”, the sentence would be
I messed up it; subject-verb-object relationship
