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New Perspectives on African American English (NPAAEa preconference to NWAV31, Stanford) Thursday Oct 10, 2002, 8:30 am- 12:10 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. For more information, please email Kara Becker at kdbecker@Stanford.EDU
SESSION I: AAVE in Folklore and Literature
8:30-8:55am	Judging Authenticity: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Zora Neale Hurston Face the Critics Lisa Cohen Minnick
8:55-9:20am	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
9:20-9:45am	A Pause for the Cause: African American Folk Sayings in Rhyme Margaret G. Lee
9:45-10:00am	Coffee Break
SESSION II: Phonology and Standardization
10:00-10:25am	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
10:25- 10:50am	Black Standard English: Its Role in the Lives of African American Students and Staff Jacquelyn Rahman
SESSION III: AAVE in Rap and Hip Hop and Detroit Revisited
10:50 -11:15am	My Bondage, My Freedom, My "nigga": Performance and Authenticity in Rap/Hip Hop Discourse Elaine Richardson
11:15-11:40am	AAVE Usage in the Rap Lyrics of Tupac Shakur Walter Edwards
11:40am-12:05pm	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