Language
and Ethnic
SocioLinguistic
GROUP 3
Kasyfillah
Mohammad Naely Silvia
Avecinna
Lubabul Fawaid Najwa
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Lazuardin
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Mutiara Nanik
Nurul Husna Ulyasari
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A notable experiment conducted in the USA involved judges
listening to tape recordings of speakers and making assumptions
about their racial backgrounds based on their speech.
Surprisingly, many judges incorrectly categorized speakers' races.
This intriguing outcome revealed two significant points:
Differences in Speech:
The experiment highlighted
discernible linguistic differences
between the English spoken by
White and African-American
individuals in the United States.
Americans could confidently assign
individuals to their respective
ethnic groups based solely on their
speech.
Social Reality of 'Black
Speech' and 'White Speech:
The experiment underscored
that, for many Americans,
there is a social reality
associated with 'black speech'
and 'white speech.'
These linguistic distinctions
carried social significance,
influencing individuals'
perceptions and
categorizations.
In conclusion, the
experiment shed light on
the intricate relationship
between language,
ethnicity, and perception,
challenging stereotypes and
highlighting the importance
of understanding the
complex role of language
in defining and
1. Ethnic groups can be identified by
different varieties of the same 3. Attitudinal factors play a
language rather than different significant role in ethnic
languages. identity, and individuals often
identify more with their
2. Differences between ethnic group ethnicity than with their social
varieties may be maintained by class.
similar mechanisms as social-class
dialects. 4. Ethnic group boundaries
can change over time, and
ethnic identities can appear or
disappear
5.Ethnic-group differences
can also be linked to
phonological and grammatical
Linguistic Diversity in Scotland: Scottish
history shows diversity linguistics among the
rooted Highland Scots of Gaelic-speaking Celts
and Lowland Scots origin from Germanic Anglo-
Saxon. Although part big from they use of
English _ moment this is the difference in history
This is reflected in accent, expression, and
variation lexical in between the second group.
Difference between Black and White American
English: There is a difference in linguistic
significance _ between style talking skin people
(Black American English) and people of color
(White American English) in America.
Historically, it is viewed as a racist misstatement
_ of inferiority from a method of talking skin
people who are black.
Studies about African American Vernacular English (AAVE):
AAVE is the focus main for Lots expert linguistics in America.
There is debate about its origins; is AAVE developing from a
change in history in dialects in the Isles of Britain or from the
influence of direct African languages
Rejection View Racist to Language
Influence Culture and History in Language:
Differences: Understanding and respecting
Languages locales and dialects of each group
different linguistics between group ethnicities is
ethnicity or area appear from history, culture,
important in the study of linguistics. There is a
and interaction social. For example, terms and
change in view from the inferiority language of
vocabulary from African languages can be
the skinned people and approach scientific to
found in Language English in America as a
understand differences This become very
result of cultural and historical migration.
important.
Development Understanding Of
Language: Learning and understanding
about differences between different
languages and dialects _ can give an
outlook deep about the origin of culture
and migration
Different of humans.
Academic about the Origins of
AAVE: There is a debate between two view
main about the origins of AAVE, whether
originated from a change in history dialects
British in the Isles of Britain or from the
influence of direct African languages. This thing
is focused on debating the scientific field of
linguistics.
Confession That Language Differences are Natural: Awareness will
differences in Language between groups of ethnicity is a step important For
confessing diversity and richness of language and culture in society.
Creole Influence: AAVE Grammatical
AAVE is thought to Differences:
originate from English The absence of '-s' in the third
Creole, a pidgin that singular in the present tense, is
developed into a natural similar to pidgin English and
language in certain Caribbean creole. Lacks copula
(verb 'to be') in the present
communities. The
tense, which is also a feature of
decreolization process Caribbean creoles.The use of
made AAVE more and 'invariant be' to indicate a
more like the language of customary aspect, is similar to
white Americans. some British dialects.
Differences between Aspect and Tense in AAVE:
AAVE shows greater aspectual differences than tenseual, similar to
some creoles.
Use of Verb Form in AAVE:
The use of Verb Form in AAVE
shows the difference between
'habitual aspect' and
'continuous action', similar to
the pattern found in creole.
AAVE Syntax:
The sentence structure in
AAVE shows some differences
in sentence construction that
are similar to nonstandard
British dialect forms.
Differences in Language Variations: Characteristics of AAVE
Creole English tends to omit only auxiliaries (helping Grammar:
verbs) in sentences, while other variants omit both
AAVE has unique grammatical
pronouns and auxiliaries. Examples of translations
from Gullah, Jamaican Creole, Sranan, and AAVE features, including question
show differences in the use of auxiliaries and inversion, 'existential it', and
pronouns 'negativized auxiliary preposition'.
Development of the AAVE Language and the White AAVE Origins Debate:The debate
Dialect: regarding the origins of AAVE is
Changes in vowels in white dialects do not occur in between the 'Africanist-creolist' view
AAVE, while there are certain grammatical changes in which considers Creole influence to be
AAVE that do not occur in white dialects.
predominant and another view which
states that some features of AAVE are
similar to British dialects.
Influence of Social
Environment:Hypothesis of separate
changes between AAVE and white dialects,
perhaps due to the lack of integration
between black and white communities in
After considerable debate around the issue of the origins of
AAVE, by the 1980s it seemed as if the Africanist-creolist
position just had to be the correct one. Some of this work has been
carried out by Shana Poplack and her co-workers on the 'African
American diaspora'. If this is so, then it is of considerable interest
that some typical AAVE features such as, for instance, invariant
be, are not found in their speech. This would support the point
ofview that differences between AA VE andWhite dialects
ofAmerican English are the resultofrelatively recent independent
The most likelydevelopments.
scenario is that this nonstandard dialect
feature was brought to what is now the USA by British
settlers who were speakers of East Anglian dialects and
that it was acquired from them by the ancestors of
modern AAVE speakers.
The second major and more recent debate associated with AAVE
has to do with what has come to be called the divergence
hypothesis. Research carried out in the 1990s appears to suggest
that, even if AAVE is descended from an English-based Creole ,
which has over the centuries, come to resemble more and more
closely the English spoken by other Americans, this process has
now begun to swing into reverse.
The implication is that these linguistic divergences are taking
place because of a lack of integration between black and white
communities in the USA, particularly in urban areas.At the
moment, American linguists are not agreed as to exactly what is
happening. However, it has been shown that sound changes that
are occurring in the vowel systems of white speakers in.For
example, Philadelphia - such as the raising of vowels in words
like write and type to , e.g. - are not occurring in the English of
black speakers in the same city.
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