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Despite the caveat against generalizing about AAVE
as a variety of American
English, some distinctive characteristics (grammatical features, pronunciation and
rhetorical patterns) of AAVE are shared with other dialects of American English, and
it is difficult to point precise features typical of AAVE only. Yet, the traits of AAVE
that distinguish it from General American English include the following:
distinctive
vocabulary;
the use of double negatives;
distinctive
use of verb tenses;
specific pronunciation features and patterns,
many of which are found in
creoles and dialects of other populations of West African descent and that also
emerge in English dialects that may be uninfluenced by West African languages, such
as Newfoundland English.
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