Date:  Fri, 31 Dec 1993 22:31:44 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: AAVE variation and ADS in Toronto



There are "layers" of differences in AAVE beyond "urban" and "rural". When I

was an undergraduate at Texas A&M, many of the kitchen employees spoke

the Brazos Bottom dialect and others spoke the variety associated with the

town of Bryan. I suspect there are lots of places in the U.S. where some of

the old features of such dialects are still observable in even tenagers, in

spite of what's going on in popular culture. I'd expect old differences to be

found in Southwestern Spanish, as well as in all "ethnic" varieties of

English ('ethnic' includes 'shades' of white) -- as Mike Linn's paper at ADS

demonstrated very well.          DMLance