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Papers by Guy Bailey

Research paper thumbnail of Review of “The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts” by Traute Ewers

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of The Study of English Dialects

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited... more This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers – invariant be to mark durativity/habituality and zero to mark nonstativity. The motivation for these innovations were both socio-cultural and linguistic. The Great Migration and its consequences provided a demographic and socio-cultural context within which linguistic innovations could develop and spread. The mismatch between form and function within the present tense copula/auxiliary system and the grammatical ambiguities that affected both invariant be and zero provided linguistic triggers for this reanalysis. When taken together, the evolution of these forms illustrates how restructured linguistic subsystems (and eventually new varieties) emerge out of the...

Research paper thumbnail of The History of African-American Vernacular English

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

African American English (AAE) originated from contact between Africans and Whites during slavery... more African American English (AAE) originated from contact between Africans and Whites during slavery. The trajectory of slavery in the United States was different from that in the Caribbean, but in areas where population ratios and time frames were most like those in the Caribbean, a creole language, Gullah, emerged. In other areas, various degrees of creolization may have taken place. As a result, early AAE was not monolithic and included some regional variation. In recordings with former slaves and African Americans born during the last half of the 19th century, the reflexes of AAE’s origins appear in features that have strong parallels with Gullah and Caribbean creoles, including zero copula/auxiliary, monophthongal /e/ and /o/, fully back vowels, and non-front onsets of /au/. As African Americans moved from slavery into farm tenancy, features emerged in AAE that were shared with Southern White vernaculars. These include grammatical forms such as yall and fixin’ to and phonological ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban South: phonology

The Americas and the Caribbean, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Sound Change, Phonological Space, and the IPA

The Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical records

A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical rec... more A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical records. PSD Mayer Dissertation Abstracts International Part B: Science and Engineering[DISS. ABST. INT. PT. B-SCI. & ENG.], 50:1010, 1990. ...

Research paper thumbnail of An Approach to Sampling in Dialectology

American Speech, 1992

... Age 45-61 62-95 30-44 18-29 Mean Use .63 .52 .43 .29 AAAAA BBBBB CCCCC DDDDD Length of Reside... more ... Age 45-61 62-95 30-44 18-29 Mean Use .63 .52 .43 .29 AAAAA BBBBB CCCCC DDDDD Length of Residence Over 10 Not Life Entire Life 10 Years or Less Mean Use .49 .48 .32 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBB Ethnicity Black Anglo Hispanic ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban South: phonology

A Handbook of Varieties of English, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The evolution of a vernacular

New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble’s “Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English”

Research paper thumbnail of Back-Formations in English Word-Formation

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Book Reviews : Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Norwood: Ablex, 1986

Iowa State Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of All Things Texas Tech (April 2010)

Page 1. Volume 2, Number 1; April 2010 Food, Fuel and Fiber Guy Bailey President A new book looks... more Page 1. Volume 2, Number 1; April 2010 Food, Fuel and Fiber Guy Bailey President A new book looks at America in 2050 when our population tops 400 million. Texas Tech is in a position to become the university that answers ...

Research paper thumbnail of All Things Texas Tech (February 2011)

... Our experiences and others (eg., Hunter, Laursen, and Seymour, 2007; Lopatto, 2009) also conf... more ... Our experiences and others (eg., Hunter, Laursen, and Seymour, 2007; Lopatto, 2009) also confirm benefits to faculty members who mentor undergraduate researchers in terms of teaching effectiveness and satisfaction, and research productivity. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Ex-Slaves' Speech

Research paper thumbnail of In Which: A New Form in Written English?

American Speech, 1991

... Most examples of nonstandard in which come from written English, there being only marginal ev... more ... Most examples of nonstandard in which come from written English, there being only marginal evidence of ... First, they are relatively common (our analysis is based on 408 examples). ... structure words that are also clausal ties-and thus can involve more global problems of sentence ...

Research paper thumbnail of Southern Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Black and White

American Speech, 1988

... AVOIDING THE HEARTBREAK OF CRATYLISM The Native Speaker Is Dead! ... Paikeday the lexicograph... more ... AVOIDING THE HEARTBREAK OF CRATYLISM The Native Speaker Is Dead! ... Paikeday the lexicographer raises a timely issue, the meaning of native speaker, and tries to present its different meanings so as to prevent his readers from falling into the pitfall of cratylism. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Present Tense of Be in Southern Black Folk Speech

American Speech, 1985

... GUY BAILEY Texas A&M University AND NATALIE MAYNOR ... In a study of Atlanta scho... more ... GUY BAILEY Texas A&M University AND NATALIE MAYNOR ... In a study of Atlanta school children,Dunlap (1974) does treat the meaning of all of the present tense forms and their patterning with various types of subjects and predicates, but he fails to consider the par-adigmatic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Yall in Oklahoma

American Speech, 1998

Page 1. YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL THE IM... more Page 1. YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL THE IMPORTANT ... social effect); YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of “The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts” by Traute Ewers

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of The Study of English Dialects

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited... more This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers – invariant be to mark durativity/habituality and zero to mark nonstativity. The motivation for these innovations were both socio-cultural and linguistic. The Great Migration and its consequences provided a demographic and socio-cultural context within which linguistic innovations could develop and spread. The mismatch between form and function within the present tense copula/auxiliary system and the grammatical ambiguities that affected both invariant be and zero provided linguistic triggers for this reanalysis. When taken together, the evolution of these forms illustrates how restructured linguistic subsystems (and eventually new varieties) emerge out of the...

Research paper thumbnail of The History of African-American Vernacular English

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

African American English (AAE) originated from contact between Africans and Whites during slavery... more African American English (AAE) originated from contact between Africans and Whites during slavery. The trajectory of slavery in the United States was different from that in the Caribbean, but in areas where population ratios and time frames were most like those in the Caribbean, a creole language, Gullah, emerged. In other areas, various degrees of creolization may have taken place. As a result, early AAE was not monolithic and included some regional variation. In recordings with former slaves and African Americans born during the last half of the 19th century, the reflexes of AAE’s origins appear in features that have strong parallels with Gullah and Caribbean creoles, including zero copula/auxiliary, monophthongal /e/ and /o/, fully back vowels, and non-front onsets of /au/. As African Americans moved from slavery into farm tenancy, features emerged in AAE that were shared with Southern White vernaculars. These include grammatical forms such as yall and fixin’ to and phonological ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban South: phonology

The Americas and the Caribbean, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Sound Change, Phonological Space, and the IPA

The Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical records

A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical rec... more A computational approach for processing locative and temporal information in clinical medical records. PSD Mayer Dissertation Abstracts International Part B: Science and Engineering[DISS. ABST. INT. PT. B-SCI. & ENG.], 50:1010, 1990. ...

Research paper thumbnail of An Approach to Sampling in Dialectology

American Speech, 1992

... Age 45-61 62-95 30-44 18-29 Mean Use .63 .52 .43 .29 AAAAA BBBBB CCCCC DDDDD Length of Reside... more ... Age 45-61 62-95 30-44 18-29 Mean Use .63 .52 .43 .29 AAAAA BBBBB CCCCC DDDDD Length of Residence Over 10 Not Life Entire Life 10 Years or Less Mean Use .49 .48 .32 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBB Ethnicity Black Anglo Hispanic ...

Research paper thumbnail of The urban South: phonology

A Handbook of Varieties of English, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The evolution of a vernacular

New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Digging up the roots of Southern American English: On Michael Montgomery and Connie Eble’s “Historical perspectives on the pen/pin merger in Southern American English”

Research paper thumbnail of Back-Formations in English Word-Formation

Meta: Journal des traducteurs, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Book Reviews : Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Norwood: Ablex, 1986

Iowa State Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of All Things Texas Tech (April 2010)

Page 1. Volume 2, Number 1; April 2010 Food, Fuel and Fiber Guy Bailey President A new book looks... more Page 1. Volume 2, Number 1; April 2010 Food, Fuel and Fiber Guy Bailey President A new book looks at America in 2050 when our population tops 400 million. Texas Tech is in a position to become the university that answers ...

Research paper thumbnail of All Things Texas Tech (February 2011)

... Our experiences and others (eg., Hunter, Laursen, and Seymour, 2007; Lopatto, 2009) also conf... more ... Our experiences and others (eg., Hunter, Laursen, and Seymour, 2007; Lopatto, 2009) also confirm benefits to faculty members who mentor undergraduate researchers in terms of teaching effectiveness and satisfaction, and research productivity. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Ex-Slaves' Speech

Research paper thumbnail of In Which: A New Form in Written English?

American Speech, 1991

... Most examples of nonstandard in which come from written English, there being only marginal ev... more ... Most examples of nonstandard in which come from written English, there being only marginal evidence of ... First, they are relatively common (our analysis is based on 408 examples). ... structure words that are also clausal ties-and thus can involve more global problems of sentence ...

Research paper thumbnail of Southern Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Black and White

American Speech, 1988

... AVOIDING THE HEARTBREAK OF CRATYLISM The Native Speaker Is Dead! ... Paikeday the lexicograph... more ... AVOIDING THE HEARTBREAK OF CRATYLISM The Native Speaker Is Dead! ... Paikeday the lexicographer raises a timely issue, the meaning of native speaker, and tries to present its different meanings so as to prevent his readers from falling into the pitfall of cratylism. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Present Tense of Be in Southern Black Folk Speech

American Speech, 1985

... GUY BAILEY Texas A&M University AND NATALIE MAYNOR ... In a study of Atlanta scho... more ... GUY BAILEY Texas A&M University AND NATALIE MAYNOR ... In a study of Atlanta school children,Dunlap (1974) does treat the meaning of all of the present tense forms and their patterning with various types of subjects and predicates, but he fails to consider the par-adigmatic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Yall in Oklahoma

American Speech, 1998

Page 1. YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL THE IM... more Page 1. YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL THE IMPORTANT ... social effect); YAT I IN OKLAHOMA JAN TILLERY GUY BAILEY University of Texas at San Antonio (F ALL ...