Timeline for What is it that allows a person to determine that a black person is speaking?
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| Aug 5, 2016 at 17:51 | comment | added | Chloe | I think maybe it is just an accent, but I was confused because the people live in the same exact area or city as me! So how can they have an accent?! But I think it's a separate culture so that imparts a slight accent, even if they don't use special vocabulary. Also HotLicks above had an interesting explanation. | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 17:50 | vote | accept | Chloe | ||
| Jul 31, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | Gary Botnovcan | That would be Downtown Julie Brown, not to be mistaken for Julie Brown, who appeared in Earth Girls Are Easy. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 13:17 | comment | added | Steven Littman | As a HS teacher in an all-minority neighborhood in NYC for almost 40 years, I can tell you that over the course of that time, the percentage of black teenagers who speak with noticeably "black" speech patterns has diminished greatly. Much of the reason is that these are typical Southern patterns, so their lessening just indicates that these families have been in the North longer. To some extent, it's the effect of mass media. (Similarly, "Brooklynese" has mostly disappeared.) BTW, anyone remember Julie Brown on MTV? She spoke with a typical British accent. | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 8:22 | history | answered | KWinker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |