Thesis

1. Approach

1.1. Sociolinguistic, morphosyntactic or semantic

2. Methodology

2.1. two corpora

2.1.1. Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL)

2.1.1.1. downloadable

2.1.2. Corpus of HHD

2.1.2.1. Construct it myself

2.1.2.1.1. data-/webscraping/API on AZlyrics.com

2.1.2.2. Find it

2.2. statistical analysis?

2.2.1. Programme: R or Excel?

2.2.2. Scripting? --> Praat

3. Selection of markers/features

3.1. Morphosyntactic or semantic

3.2. How to make this selection: find a gap in literature

4. African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

4.1. Raciolinguistics

5. Hip Hop Discourse (HHD)

5.1. Lyrical

6. Research Question

6.1. General

6.1.1. Hypothesis

6.2. Specific/Sub

6.2.1. Hypotheses