Top Ten Patterns of Nonstandard English Dialects in Louisiana
Below is a list of the 10 most frequently produced vernacular patterns of the Southern African American English and Southern White English varieties we have studied. In Oetting and McDonald (2002) and Oetting and Pruitt (2005), we showed that DDM values calculated with these 10 patterns are highly correlated (r > .85) to DDM values calculated with a wider range of patterns. Our current work focuses on these ten patterns to reduce the amount of time we spend coding samples.
zero be He walking to the store.
zero regular third He want to go with you.
zero auxiliary do Which one you want?
S-V agreement with don’t He don’t want to go.
zero irregular past He fall down already.
multiple negation I don’t want no more.
S-V agreement with be They was going to do it.
alternative pronoun Me and him are going.
zero regular past Yesterday he jump.
Appositive My sister, she takes piano.
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