AAVE - quiz

Dialectal variation is of little importance to professionals in the area of human communication disorders.

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A dialect is a variety of language distinquished from other varieties in its phonology, grammar, or vocabulary, or in its use by speakers who differ socially or geographically from other speakers.

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Final consonant cluster reduction is not a common feature of AAVE.

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In AAVE, the distinction between the lax, front vowels (i.e., as in 'bit' and 'bet') before nasal consonants is lost, with the words tin and ten pronounced as 'tin.'.

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In AAVE, the final cluster in a word like paint (/pent/) is less likely to show reduction because the /n/ and /t/ have different voicing characteristics.

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It generally takes several generations before a pidgin develops into a Creole.

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Metathesis refers to the transposition of sounds (e.g., 'asteriks' for 'asterisk').

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Monophthongs often become diphthongized in AAVE.

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A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication when two or more language communities come together.

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Similar to other dialects of American English, it is common in AAVE to change the velar nasal to an alveolar nasal in the present progressive verb ending.

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