Lisa Green will give a talk at Cornell entitled "Inversion in African American English: When Negation Isn't Enough" on September 26 (Thursday).
The newsletter of the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
22 September 2013
18 November 2012
Conner, Pearson and Jackson in Atlanta
Barbara Pearson writes:
Tracy Conner, Janice Jackson and I presented a paper on "Dialect Awareness: Foundations for Effective Education of African American English-speaking Children" at the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association annual meeting in Atlanta on Thursday, November 15, 2012. The paper was based on an article to appear in Developmental Psychology, January 2013, a themed edition on "Deficit versus Difference? Interpreting Diverse Developmental Paths" (and is already available on-line). As part of Tracy's answers to an engaged audience, she was able to refer people to her poster in the following session: New Diagnostic Criterion: Obligatory Possessive Marking in African American English.