AAE, Africa and Asia

Where in the US does the majority of African Americans live nowadays?

• West

• Midwest

• South

• Northeast

Answer explanation

Even though many African Americans left the South during the Great Migration, the majority of them still live in the southern states today.

After the Great Migration most African Americans lived outside the South.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Even after the Great Migration most African Americans lived in the South of the US.

African American English shares many features with which variety?

• Southern US varieties

• RP

• Cockney

• Northern US varieties

Answer explanation

Before the Great Migration the vast majority of African Americans lived in the South. Naturally the varieties began to share a lot of features.

Only African Americans speak AAE.

• True

• False

Most people in Ghana speak English as an...

• L1

• L2

Answer explanation

Most people in Ghana acquire English at school (=> as a second language).

L1 means

• mother tongue

• second language

Many West African Englishes show a lack of... vowels

• back

• central

• high/close

In Ghanaian English diphthongs...

• can be monophthongized.

• are always monophthongized.

Answer explanation

Though keep in mind: not every diphthong can be monophthongized :-)

Ghanaian English and AAE can be considered... varieties.

• rhotic

• non-rhotic

English is the language spoken most as an L1 in India

• True

• False