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New Perspectives on African American English (NPAAE--a preconference to NWAV31, Stanford) Thursday Oct 10, 2002, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm. Location: CERAS (Center for Education Research at Stanford), Room 204 There is no registration fee, and everyone is invited. This preconference is being organized by John Rickford, John Baugh and Kara Becker, and is sponsored by African and African American Studies, Stanford. For more information, please email Kara Becker at kdbecker@Stanford.EDU
SESSION I: AAVE in Folklore and Literature (Chair: John Rickford, Stanford)
8:30-9:00am	Judging Authenticity: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Zora Neale Hurston Face the Critics Lisa Cohen Minnick (Georgia Institute of Technology)
9:00-9:30am	On the Use of a Literary Text for the Study of Spoken AAVE: Connie Porter's 'Imani All Mine' Vicki Anderson, Stuart Davis, Jennifer Deegan, Kelly Trennepohl, and Mark Van Dam (Indiana University)
9:30-10:00am	A Pause for the Cause: African American Folk Sayings in Rhyme Margaret G. Lee (Hampton University)
10:00-10:15am	Coffee Break
SESSION II: Phonology and Standardization (Chair: Kara Becker, Stanford)
10:15-10:45am	Am I My Brother's Keeper? The Role of Family Ties and Standardizing Factors in the Phonological Variation of African American English Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez and Jennifer G. Nguyen (U. Michigan)
10:45- 11:15am	Black Standard English: Its Role in the Lives of African American Students and Staff Jacquelyn Rahman (Stanford University)
SESSION III: AAVE in Rap and Hip Hop and Detroit Revisited (Chair: John Baugh, Stanford)
11:15 -11:45am	My Bondage, My Freedom, My "nigga": Performance and Authenticity in Rap/Hip Hop Discourse Elaine Richardson (Pennsylvania State University)
11:45-12:15pm	Copula Deletion in the Speech of African American Children in Detroit: A Comparison of Recent Data with Wolfram's 1969 Study Kathleen Shaw, Eriko Atagi, Elon Lang, and Yohani Daswani (U. Michigan)