American black English that very Special English

American Black English that Very Special English

Abstract:

In recent years, the endless stream of black life in the United States film and television has shown, Black English has also been widespread concern. This paper mainly expresses the sources of American Black English and complicated analyses the main features of Black English.

Key words:

Black English dialect features racialism

1. Introduction:On the source of Black English, there always have been many different views of it. But now most linguistics generally agree that Stewart, Dillard and Rockford’s idea which they thought black is a Creole of English Creole language, its predecessor, the 16th century West African blacks use of Pidgin English, therefore, Black English can be said to be Africa –English. In 16 --19th century, European settlers transferred a large number of black slaves from Africa to America. In order to prevent the black slaves absconded and against each other. The slave owners divided and mixed them t hat the slaves can’t through the Language barrier. But to communicate with each other the black slaves gradually constitutes a doping among some English vocabulary and can understand each other which called Pidgin English. As time goes on the influence of English gradually deepened that makes the words of black slaves increasingly characteristic of English, and thus evolution of Creole. Because of the US civil war, the industrial revolution, and abandoned slavery, the black northward a little bit, although they are scattered in the South, but because of

race, class and social effects of environmental factors such as, they constitute the social study of an isolated from the white group, they say a Creole, following temporary evolved gradually constitute a variation of different from standard English: black English. Flacsner once said that: “black English is a kind of idiomatic dialect, English with African accents. In order to communicate with each other, also in order to adapt to the environment, they learn English, and mixing the original language and English grammar, forming the words some special ways of contact. In this process, black speech and English attack intimacy, absorption of English composition, adhere to the characteristics of their own, resulting in basic stick to original quality under the condition of black English gradually forming.

2. Features of the Black English.

2.1. Voice side

2.11. The omission of/ r/.

After the vowels, r before consonants sounds are often omitted, such as guard-God, Fort-fought pronunciation of such words in each pair is no different. Even after Black English vowel r tone rules extension is omitted, r is also between two vowels are omitted. Thus, Carol and CAL pronunciation, pronunciation of Paris and pass is the same.

2.12.The omission of / l/.

All in Black English – AWE, become homophones such as help-HEP, will also read the Wi. When will the use of thumbnail form' when you ll, it is often made into a fuzzy Ah sound, such as IAH=i’ll be there in a minut e.

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3. The Simplification of consonant clusters.

When continue appears when one of the two consonants are alveolar, alveolar omitted, such as passed and past are read into and pass the same sound.

2.14.One is the transformation between /θ/ an d / e/

In the most informal of situations, /θ/ and / e/ often into other sounds. /θ/ into t at the top of the word, such as think -Tink; /θ/ of the final made into/f/, such as mouth read mauf. Read - /e /to /d/.Such as read they to dei , and read with to wid .