Lisa Green directs the Center for the Study of African American Language, which facilitates research on:
- the linguistic system of AAE from the perspective of modern theoretical linguistics
- the acquisition of AAE by children
- language use by AAE-speaking school-age children
- language-related issues with implications for practical application (e.g., reading, writing, speech pathology)
- language-related issues with implications for society (e.g., language variation, linguistic profiling, popular culture)
- early texts and recordings (e.g., ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, voodoo documents, prison work songs, documentaries and films, literature)
- historical origins of African American language varieties