Renée Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renée Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renée |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford
Rickford Publications; PART I Introduction; 1 Introduction to the Volume; 2 The Makings of a Linguist: John R. Rickford's Education in His Native Guyana; PART II Exploring Language Contact From a Sociolinguistic and Sociohistorical Point of View; 3 Introduction; 4 In the Fisherman's Net: Language Contact in a Sociolinguistics Context; 5 African-Indian-American South and Caribbean Worlds: Connecting With John R. Rickford's Language Contact Researc…
African American and Black as Demographic Codes
This article addresses the semantics of ethnicity/race and ethnic/racial categorization in the United States and its role in sociolinguistic inquiry. The focus is on scholars' ethnic/racial coding of African American, which is used interchangeably with the label Black.While there has been a growing body of research that shows African American English (AAE) varies both regionally andacrosssocial lines (e.g., age, gender, class), slow to follow is …
Second generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City
Within American sociolinguistics there is a substantial body of research on race as a social variable that conditions language behavior, particularly with regard to black speakers of African American English (AAE) in contact with their white neighbors (e.g., Wolfram, 1971; Rickford, 1985; Myhill, 1986; Bailey, 2001; Cukor-Avila, 2001). Today, the communities that sociolinguists study are more multi-layered than ever, particularly in a metropolis …
Hearing the voice of a new generation
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Bajan
The /ay/ diphthong in a Martha's Vineyard community
This article revisits Labov's (1962, 1972a) germinal sociolinguistic work on Martha's Vineyard speech, providing a synchronic analysis of the /ay/ diphthong in words like right and time, and, in turn, a diachronic perspective on a sound change in progress. Labov observed that the first element of the /ay/ diphthong was raised in the speech of Martha's Vineyarders, particularly fishermen, and he correlated it with social factors like identity (i.e…
Defining the envelope of linguistic variation
Ever since Labov, Cohen, Robbins, and Lewis's (1968) pioneering study, it has been commonplace to set aside certain tokens in analyzing variability in the English copula as “don't count” (DC) forms. These cases are most often occurrences of the copula that exhibit categorical behavior (as with the full copula in clause-final position), as well as those that are ambiguous or indeterminate. In this article, I propose a set of copula forms that shou…
Sociolinguistic Variation
Rappin on the copula coffin
We explore two unresolved methodological issues in the study of copula variation in African-American Vernacular English, assessing their quantitative and theoretical consequences via multiple variable rule analyses of data from East Palo Alto, California. The first is whether is - contraction and deletion should be considered separately from that of are . We conclude that it should not, because the quantitative conditioning is almost identical fo…
Copula Contraction and Absence in Barbadian English, Samaná English and Vernacular Black English
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 257-268
Rappin on the copula coffin
We explore two unresolved methodological issues in the study of copula variation in African-American Vernacular English, assessing their quantitative and theoretical consequences via multiple variable rule analyses of data from East Palo Alto, California. The first is whether is - contraction and deletion should be considered separately from that of are . We conclude that it should not, because the quantitative conditioning is almost identical fo…
Defining the envelope of linguistic variation
Ever since Labov, Cohen, Robbins, and Lewis's (1968) pioneering study, it has been commonplace to set aside certain tokens in analyzing variability in the English copula as “don't count” (DC) forms. These cases are most often occurrences of the copula that exhibit categorical behavior (as with the full copula in clause-final position), as well as those that are ambiguous or indeterminate. In this article, I propose a set of copula forms that shou…
The /ay/ diphthong in a Martha's Vineyard community
This article revisits Labov's (1962, 1972a) germinal sociolinguistic work on Martha's Vineyard speech, providing a synchronic analysis of the /ay/ diphthong in words like right and time, and, in turn, a diachronic perspective on a sound change in progress. Labov observed that the first element of the /ay/ diphthong was raised in the speech of Martha's Vineyarders, particularly fishermen, and he correlated it with social factors like identity (i.e…
African American and Black as Demographic Codes
This article addresses the semantics of ethnicity/race and ethnic/racial categorization in the United States and its role in sociolinguistic inquiry. The focus is on scholars' ethnic/racial coding of African American, which is used interchangeably with the label Black.While there has been a growing body of research that shows African American English (AAE) varies both regionally andacrosssocial lines (e.g., age, gender, class), slow to follow is …
Copula Contraction and Absence in Barbadian English, Samaná English and Vernacular Black English
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 257-268
Rappin on the copula coffin
We explore two unresolved methodological issues in the study of copula variation in African-American Vernacular English, assessing their quantitative and theoretical consequences via multiple variable rule analyses of data from East Palo Alto, California. The first is whether is - contraction and deletion should be considered separately from that of are . We conclude that it should not, because the quantitative conditioning is almost identical fo…
Sociolinguistic Variation
Defining the envelope of linguistic variation
Ever since Labov, Cohen, Robbins, and Lewis's (1968) pioneering study, it has been commonplace to set aside certain tokens in analyzing variability in the English copula as “don't count” (DC) forms. These cases are most often occurrences of the copula that exhibit categorical behavior (as with the full copula in clause-final position), as well as those that are ambiguous or indeterminate. In this article, I propose a set of copula forms that shou…
The /ay/ diphthong in a Martha's Vineyard community
This article revisits Labov's (1962, 1972a) germinal sociolinguistic work on Martha's Vineyard speech, providing a synchronic analysis of the /ay/ diphthong in words like right and time, and, in turn, a diachronic perspective on a sound change in progress. Labov observed that the first element of the /ay/ diphthong was raised in the speech of Martha's Vineyarders, particularly fishermen, and he correlated it with social factors like identity (i.e…
Bajan
Second generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City
Within American sociolinguistics there is a substantial body of research on race as a social variable that conditions language behavior, particularly with regard to black speakers of African American English (AAE) in contact with their white neighbors (e.g., Wolfram, 1971; Rickford, 1985; Myhill, 1986; Bailey, 2001; Cukor-Avila, 2001). Today, the communities that sociolinguists study are more multi-layered than ever, particularly in a metropolis …
Hearing the voice of a new generation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
African American and Black as Demographic Codes
This article addresses the semantics of ethnicity/race and ethnic/racial categorization in the United States and its role in sociolinguistic inquiry. The focus is on scholars' ethnic/racial coding of African American, which is used interchangeably with the label Black.While there has been a growing body of research that shows African American English (AAE) varies both regionally andacrosssocial lines (e.g., age, gender, class), slow to follow is …
The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford
Rickford Publications; PART I Introduction; 1 Introduction to the Volume; 2 The Makings of a Linguist: John R. Rickford's Education in His Native Guyana; PART II Exploring Language Contact From a Sociolinguistic and Sociohistorical Point of View; 3 Introduction; 4 In the Fisherman's Net: Language Contact in a Sociolinguistics Context; 5 African-Indian-American South and Caribbean Worlds: Connecting With John R. Rickford's Language Contact Researc…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · History (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Sociolinguistics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)