Salient Linguistic Features of AAVE

Morphological Features

1. Suffix -s Variation
   1. Plural -s (contextual signals)
   2. Possessive -s (contextual signals)
   3. Third person Singular -s
   4. Reduplicated -s or Reinterpretation of -s
2. Past Tense Markers

Phonological Features

1. Consonant Cluster Simplification, or Reduction
2. Final Consonant Simplification, or Deletion
3. Final and Post-vocalic -r Variation
4. [I] + [n] is realized as [æ ] and [I] + [nk] is realized as [ænk]
5. [theta] > [f] in Word/Syllable-final Position
6. [ð] > [d] in Word/Syllable-inital Position
7. [ð] > [v] in Word/Syllable-medial Position
8. -l Deletion or Reduction, in Word/Syllable-medial or Word/Syllable-final Position

Syntactic Features

1. Copula Deletion, or Variation
2. They Possessive
3. It Expletive
4. Gon
5. Multiple Negation
6. Aspectual Verb -s Suffix
7. Pronominal Apposition
8. Perfective, or Completive, done
9. Stressed, or Remotive, been
10. Aspectual, or Immutable, be
11. Future be
12. Future Perfective be done
13. Aspectual steady