African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia
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natural language processingRecord type:
dataset
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Luc
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Joh
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This chapter investigates African American English as it was transported to Liberia in the nineteenth
century based on vernacular Liberian letters compiled in the Corpus of Older African American Letters. The analysis
focuses in particular on the individual variation in the verbal paradigm of an emigrant family. The findings show that
family members evince similar changes in progress transported from the American South but that social changes induced
by the migratory movement have resulted in changes with regard to verbal -s marking that take very different paths of
developments in two generations of the same family.
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