Dialectal Forms during Discourse of Poor, Urban, African American Preschoolers.

Washington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K.

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ERIC Number: EJ489399

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Publication Date: 1994

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Dialectal Forms during Discourse of Poor, Urban, African American Preschoolers.

Washington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K.

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, v37 n4 p816-23 Aug 1994

This study examined nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms used by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American children. Distributional analyses revealed three subgroups distinguished by the percentage frequencies of occurrence of utterances containing specific forms and by the predominant types used by each group. (Author)

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Low Income Groups, Morphology (Languages), Preschool Children, Syntax, Urban Areas

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Language: English

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