The Linguistics of AAVE
Channel: Xidnaf
Date: 2015-08-12

It's about time I address linguistic prescriptivism.

Links to things I didn't make that are in this video:
Intro song:  "Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXvSBHB210
Outro song:  "Mach Speed" by FlightRush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BW63OOPu7Q

Map of race in Chicago by Bill Rankin
http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?chicagodots
A cool video he made about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRcdMVkA3k

Map of dialects of North American English:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

Photo of Los Angeles by Nserrano:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#/media/File:LA_Skyline_Mountains2.jpg
Photo of New York by Anthony Quintano:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/14825199293
Photo of Chicago by J. Crocker:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-02-19_16500x2000_chicago_skyline_panorama.jpg
Photo of a swamp in Mississippi by Gary Bridgman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#/media/File:Wolf-River-swamp-North-Mississippi.jpg
Anonymous painting of slaves on a South-Carolina plantation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Slave_dance_to_banjo,_1780s.jpg
Picture of a slave ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_South_(clipper)#/media/File:HMS_Brisk_and_Emanuela.jpg

Screen shots of websites used were from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bidialectalism