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BE, DO, and Modal Auxiliaries of 3-Year-Old African American English Speakers
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Newkirk-Turner, Brandi L.; Oetting, Janna B.; Stockman, Ida J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study examined African American English--speaking children's use of BE, DO, and modal auxiliaries. Method: The data were based on language samples obtained from 48 three-year-olds. Analyses examined rates of marking by auxiliary type, auxiliary surface form, succeeding element, and syntactic construction and by a number of child…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Toddlers, African American Children, Verbs