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Re:Which English? by zefei on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:39PM (#7843912)
It seems that the distance between American English and AAVE is very small, which is natural I guess.

I got 1. Ebonics 2. New Zealand 3. English (England) for dialect and 1. Turkish 2. German 3. Finnish for native language. I'm native Chinese currently living in California.

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Re:Which English? by gameswithwords on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:50PM (#7843942)
That's right. In our data, Standard American, Canadian, & AAVE are all pretty similar. Partly that's a function of the questions we ask. But partly that's because there's a clear divide between the north american dialects and the UK-based ones.
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