中文摘要：当今,我们能在网络上看到越来越多的美国黑人公众人物,他们可能是篮球运动员,著名歌手或者演员,甚至是总统,因此,我们也就有着更多机会他们说着的美国黑人英语。因为非常想知道这种语言的特点,所以许多人都投入到研究美国黑人英语这项工作中去。而这篇论文通过三个方面来进行研究,它们分别是：语音学,语法和词形学。通过研究先前的学者所撰写的文献,这篇论文对这三个方面进行深入探究。而通过分析,我确实得出了一些结论,比如/r/或者/l/音的省略,动词时态,美国黑人创造的俚语或词语等等。借助这篇文章,读者能对这种独特的语言有更深刻的认识,从而促进我们与美国黑人友人的交流并减少我们之间的文化隔阂。

关键词：美国黑人英语  语言学  语音学  句法  词形学

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

中文摘要

Chapter One Introduction-1

1.1 Present situation of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-1

1.2 Origin of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-2

Chapter Two Phonology of African American Vernacular English-3

2.1 Definition of phonology-3

2.2 Phonological features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-3

2.2.1 Deletion of /r/-3

2.2.2 Deletion of /l/-4

2.2.3 Simplification of consonants-4

Chapter Three Grammar of African American Vernacular English-6

3.1 Definition of grammar-6

3.2 Grammatical features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-6

3.2.1 Copula “be”-6

3.2.2 Tense of verbs-7

3.2.3 Negation-8

Chapter Four Morphology of African American Vernacular English-10

4.1 Definition of morphology-10

4.2 Unique vocabularies used by AfricanAmericans-10

4.2.1 Slang created by AfricanAmericans-10

4.2.2 Vocabularies created by AfricanAmericans-11

4.2.3 Spelling of vocabularies in AfricanAmericans’ daily talk-12

Chapter Five Summary-14

5.1 Summary of the features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-14

5.2 Meaning and enlightenment of this research-14

REFERENCES-15

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-16