【專八minilecture】美國黑人英語（3/6)

Today,black people are spread all over American's 50 continents and most of them are the descendants of African slaves. Blacks living on islands off the coast of Georgia and North Carolina speak Gullah,which still sounds like the English of the slaves. The slave trade spread Pidgin English throughout the Caribbean Island and the southern US and became the basis for Plantation Creole. A number of scholars do not accept such a scenario. These researches argued that the demographic conditions in the US and the Caribbean where restructured Creole languages are widely spoken were really quite different and that the condition necessary for the emergence of full-fledged Creole language were never met in the US. These scholars have shown on a number of occasions that what look like distinctive features of Black English today actually have a precedent in various varieties of English spoken in Great Britain and the Southern United States. It seems reasonable to suggest that both views are partially correct and that Black English developed to some extent through reconstructing while it also inherited many of its today distinctive features from older varieties of English,which were once widely spoken.