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African-American English and Linguistic Complexity in Preschool Discourse; A Second Look.
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Craig, Holly K.; Washington, Julie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
The prepositional phrases used in free play discourse by 45 African American preschoolers from low-income homes were analyzed. A statistically significant positive relationship was found between amounts of African American English (AAE) form use and relational semantic complexity. No significant relationships were found between simpler…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis
Performance of Working Class African-American Children on Three Tests of Articulation.
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Cole, Patricia A.; Taylor, Orlando L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
Ten African-American children, aged five to six, who speak Black English Vernacular were administered three standard English articulation tests. Results showed that a failure to take the issue of dialect variation into account substantially increased the likelihood of misdiagnosing normally speaking African-American children as having articulation…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Black Dialects, Black Students, Diagnostic Tests