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Some african americans shift between standard american english and african american vernacular english, depending on the situation. this ability is called:

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Code-switching, but this is mainly for people who are fluent in both of the languages.

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Answer: Code switching.

Step-by-step explanation:

In linguistics, if someone changes languages, or applies language varieties, during the same conversation, is considered code-switching or language alternation. Multilingual people are those who speak more than one language, and it´s usual for them to seldom use parts of different languages when talking to each other.

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