Table 2.

Frequency of nonmainstream dialect patterns.

	SLI		6N		4N
	SAAE	SWE	SAAE	SWE	SAAE	SWE
zero be	309	161	211	63	246	89
be2	51	3	37	3	34	1
I’ma for I’m going to	0	0	2	0	0	0
SV agreement with be	39	29	35	25	23	25
omission of auxiliary do	52	56	14	22	42	60
omission of auxiliary have	2	9	4	12	1	4
zero regular third	135	42	112	25	85	19
zero irregular third	29	27	32	7	26	8
SV agreement with don’t	38	25	23	23	36	33
zero regular past	46	31	28	5	33	10
zero irregular past	40	40	15	6	31	34
had + past	22	0	53	0	8	0
over-regularization	12	20	11	7	11	34
participle as past	1	1	13	2	4	3
ain’t	27	13	15	23	10	15
multiple negation	42	24	25	30	29	35
indefinite article	6	6	6	2	15	2
zero present progressive	11	8	4	7	11	16
zero plural	39	17	15	15	21	5
zero possessive	23	9	27	9	14	6
zero infinitive to	14	18	12	7	12	13
for to/to	0	0	0	1	1	0
zero of	23	11	12	12	12	12
what/that or zero that	4	4	5	2	5	5
been and BIN	2	1	3	2	2	5
done + verb	0	0	0	1	0	1
fixing + verb	2	0	4	2	1	1
undifferentiated pronoun	61	41	16	14	19	25
reflexive	6	1	2	2	5	3
demonstrative	10	0	0	2	3	0
dative	2	6	4	2	11	3
y’all varieties	6	2	4	2	2	7
appositive	25	29	37	49	13	16
existential it and they	0	1	0	2	0	0
Wh- noninversion	26	26	7	3	7	12