However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
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But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
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I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
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