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The Linguistic Characteristics of AAVE

Here are some of the typical structural features of AAVE:

Grammatical Features

(For the linguistic features of AAVE as presented here see Kortmann (2005) and Finegan (2004) ).

Phonological Features

(For the linguistic features of AAVE as presented here see Kortmann (2005) and Finegan (2004) ).

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