Ebonis Vita Ottonis Episcopi Bambergensis (Classic Reprint)

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It still is very much the case that many people, without thinking, can harbor negative assumptions about the different ways other people speak.

Percent of low and high phenotypicality face selections after listening to low and high stereotypicality speakers. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Schüppert A., Hilton N. H., Gooskens C. (2015). Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition. Linguistics 53 And the NYT’s Peter Applebome wrote a series of pieces about the controversy, fleshing out Oakland’s distinct place in California politics, the political dynamics surrounding the vote in favor of the resolution, and a controversial figure who seemed to be behind the Ebonics proposal. Ebonics pronunciation includes features like the omission of the final consonant in words like 'past' (pas' ) and 'hand' (han'), the pronunciation of the th in 'bath' as t (bat) or f (baf), and the pronunciation of the vowel in words like 'my' and 'ride' as a long ah (mah, rahd). Some of these occur in vernacular white English, too, especially in the South, but in general they occur more frequently in Ebonics. Some Ebonics pronunciations are more unique, for instance, dropping b, d, or g at the beginning of auxiliary verbs like 'don't' and 'gonna', yielding Ah 'on know for "I don't know" and ama do it for "I'm going to do it." What does Ebonics look like?

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Ain’t nobody got time for double negatives…said no grammar pedant ever. To a prescriptivist, using double negatives for actually emphasizing more negation is just the worst. If I’m not saying nothing, obviously I must be saying something. As the assumption goes, because two negatives must logically cancel each other out, people who use double negatives in this way must also logically be uneducated or unintelligent. This, of course, is a false belief that is still widely shared in mainstream American culture (possibly even among speakers who regularly use double negation themselves). Anisfeld M., Bogo N., Lambert W. E. (1962). Evaluational reactions to accented English speech. J. Abnormal Soc. Psychol. 65 Baugh, John. 2000. Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic pride and racial prejudice.Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rakiæ T., Steffens M. C., Mummendey A. (2011b). When it matters how you pronounce it: the influence of regional accents on job interview outcome. Br. J. Psychol. 102 Osborne D., Davies P. G. (2013). Eyewitness identifications are affected by stereotypes about a suspect’s level of perceived stereotypicality. Group Proces. Intergroup Rel. 16

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