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Features systematic scrutiny of the actual spontaneous speech behavior of hundreds of bilingual individuals in the context of their bilingual speech communities, including analysis of tens of thousands of tokens of spontaneously produced borrowed words~Showcases French-English mixing, and validates the results on a dozen other language pairs, ensuring their broad applicability~Demonstrates that integration, the major mechanism underlying borro...

Features systematic scrutiny of the actual spontaneous speech behavior of hundreds of bilingual individuals in the context of their bilingual speech communities, including analysis of tens of thousands of tokens of spontaneously produced borrowed words~Showcases French-English mixing, and validates the results on a dozen other language pairs, ensuring their broad applicability~Demonstrates that integration, the major mechanism underlying borro...

Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume explores an alternative hypothesis: that the characteristic features were acquired from the varieties of English to which early speakers were exposed.

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.