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© 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press If one listens closely one will note too that a word is slurred in one position in the sentence but clearly pronounced in another. This is particularly true of the pronouns. A pronoun as a subject is likely to be clearly enunciated, but slurred as an object. For example: “You better not let me ketch yuh.” [1] —Zora Neale Hurston, “Characteristics of Negro Expression” When Zora Neale Hurston commented on the variations of African American dialect for her...
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