Denzel Washington - Penn commencement speech
Play videoVideo of commencement speech delivered by Denzel Washington at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011. Compare to commencement speech given at Dillard University in May 2015. Washington is an African American actor and director from New York who is a native speaker of AAE. The University of Pennsylvania is a large Ivy League university located in Philadelphia. White students make up a relative majority of the Penn student body.
Used for /ai/ monophthongization project in Reed College AAE class Spring 2018.