MRPG: Syntactic and Semantic Patterns in Child African American English

青少年和成人非裔美国人英语(AAE)具有明确的句法和语义形式。然而，儿童AAE说话者获得这些模式的发展阶段还没有确定。因此，尽管一些研究人员已经考虑了五到六岁AAE说话者语言中特定特征的使用(斯托克曼和沃恩-库克1981年；怀亚特1991,1995；杰克逊1995)，但对正常发育的AAE说话者的言语的全面描述是不可获得的。这些计划活动旨在制定一项协议，包括启发式任务，用于收集信息，对路易斯安那州亚瑟湖、得克萨斯州奥斯汀和得克萨斯州达拉斯三、四和五岁AAE儿童的语法和语义模式进行描述性分析。在规划活动之后进行的研究将提供有关AAE整体系统的数据，重点是时体标记、存在标记系统、否定结构的模式和问题形成的策略。通过在理论框架内分析AAE，就有可能超越将变化与主流英语进行比较的讨论，从而显示AAE如何相对于其他语言形成模式。

Adolescent and adult African American English (AAE) is characterized by well-defined syntactic and semantic forms. However, the stages of development in which child AAE speakers acquire these patterns have not been identified. As a result, thorough descriptions of the speech of normally developing AAE speakers are not available, though some researchers have considered the use of a particular feature in the language of five and six year old AAE speakers (Stockman and Vaughn-Cook 1981; Wyatt 1991, 1995; Jackson 1995). The planning activities are designed to lead to the development of a protocol, including elicitation tasks, that will be used in gathering information to write a descriptive analysis of the syntactic and semantic patterns in the grammars of three, four and five year old AAE speakers in Lake Arthur, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; and Dallas, Texas. The research to be conducted following the planning activities will provide data about the overall system of AAE, with a focus on areas such as tense and aspect marking, the system of existential marking, patterns in negation constructions and strategies of question formation. By analyzing AAE within a theoretical framework, it becomes possible to move beyond discussions in which the variety is compared to mainstream English, thus showing how AAE patterns with respect to other languages.