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I've noticed that many blacks in inner cities (outside of NYC) don't pronounce there R's at the end of words, just like new yorkers. are boston people. i've noticed this in philly, baltimore, etc. "come ova hea". have you noticed this as well, and what is the reason for this???
I've noticed that many blacks in inner cities (outside of NYC) don't pronounce there R's at the end of words, just like new yorkers. are boston people. i've noticed this in philly, baltimore, etc. "come ova hea". have you noticed this as well, and what is the reason for this???
I haven't noticed this, but if you have, it could be (A) you happen to run into a lot of ex-NYers in other cities, or (B) that r-dropping trait comes from somewhere else, like parts of the South. A lot of southern accents are non-rhotic too.
There are multiple African-American vernacular dialects with their respective accents.
That said, there are some core identifying features that are shared between them stemming from the fact that most Black Americans throughout the country trace their American heritage to the Southeast, but even within that region there are distinct differences. No one would confuse a Virginian with a Louisianan, for example.
These dialects today usually exhibit characteristics related to proximal dialects (such as non-rhoticity in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic) as well as having their own identifying characteristics both derivative and innovative. African-American vernacular in California is almost excessively rhotic like a westcountry farmer.
It may sound like a trite suggestion, but listen to some rap. New York rappers have a very different accent from the Dirty South which sounds very different from California.
First of all it's Black English or if you want to get technical AAVE (African American Vernacular English). Second two different accents being non rhotic does not mean they're the same. Do you think Boston, Australian and RP accents are the same?
Blacks in NYC don't talk like blacks in other U.S. cities. Half of them are from the Caribbean, and the other half have traces of the NY accent (how Spike Lee talks).
That's new to me. I've met blacks in non-southern states that have very southern accents, but rarely any blacks outside NYC who have the NY accent. Maybe in other Mid-Atlantic cities due to all the transient population, but not anywhere else in the country.
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