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Actually, when I think about it, I think most people would consider AAVE the basilect.
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I want to know about Jamaican Basolect,Mesolect and acrolect.
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The idea that Southern American English is the basilect is an over-simplification on steroids.
My father, who attended college in the early 50s, speaks of a prestige Southern dialect taught in finishing schools and speech classes; it was based closely on Tidewater, with some Savannah influence.
Prestige Southern English ceased to be taught about 1955, when speech classes in the South began to re-orient towards General American. I suspect the profound social effect of television was the reason.
You can hear this dialect in the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Listen to the millionaire.
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Here's a bad rendition of the BOSTON BRAHMIN dialect:
http://snipurl.com/1t6o1
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