Reading response

Readings: 1. Kaplan, ch. 2 2. Geoffrey Pullum’s “African American Vernacular English is not Standard English with mistakes”, available on Ares (you can also find it if you just google the title). Please answer question 1, and either question 2 or 3. Keep your response to one page. You don’t need to give citations of the assigned readings. 1. (Everyone answer this). On p.17, Kaplan describes the main result of the study by Green and Roeper (2007), that AAE and non-AAE speakers had a different answer to the question about the story Kaplan cites in (15). Explain the logic behind Green and Roeper’s result. You’ll need to read the whole section, not just p.17, to answer this question. You don’t need to track down the original study by Green and Roeper, though you may want to do so if you’re interested in further reading on this topic. (Pick one of the following two to answer): 2. Using Pullum’s article, give two examples of AA(V)E features that are not found in Standard English but found in some other language of the world. 3. Briefly describe an experience you have had, in Canada or elsewhere, that involves the standard/non-standard dynamic described by Kaplan and Pullum. Do you speak a variety of a language that is stigmatized? Have you encountered speakers of a stigmatized variety?