User:Phonologee/African-American Vernacular English

Final consonant groups or clusters in African American English (AAE) have been examined as evidence of the systematic nature of this language variety, governed by specific rules. Additionally, such analyses have been utilized to bolster arguments concerning the historical origins of AAE. Consonant cluster reduction is a phonological process where a final consonant group or cluster, consisting of two consonant sounds, is simplified or reduced to a single consonant sound. The analysis of consonant cluster reduction in African American English (AAE) assumes that, initially, final clusters are present and intact in the language. For example, the word "tes" in AAE is seen as originating from "test," with the final "t" being deleted under specific conditions. According to this analysis, AAE treats a word like "test" as identical to its counterpart in mainstream English. Any differences in pronunciation between the two varieties, such as "test" in mainstream English and "tes" in AAE, are attributed to phonological processes rather than differences in underlying word representations.

"Compounding in AAVE is a very common method in creating new vocabulary."

"This tendency has been used by creolists to compare AAVE to West African languages since such languages do not have final clusters."

AAVE or AAE is a dialect of English with definable grammatical rules and phonological systems. These systems are argued by some linguists to be influenced by West African languages, an example of this being the words 'go', 'done', and 'be' which describe future tense, completive aspect, and anterior aspect respectively in both AAE and multiple West African Languages.