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Vaughn, Lori Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2021
African American English (AAE)-speaking children's ability to judge the grammaticality of sentences was evaluated by their clinical status and grammatical structure. The study originated from a need to understand more about the tense and agreement systems of AAE speakers with specific language impairment (SLI) relative to their typically…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, Grammar, Sentences
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Stockman, Ida J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: The variable deletion of word-final consonants is a well-known feature of African American English (AAE). This study aimed to show whether African American children exhibit an alveolar bias in their deletion of final voiceless stops as has been observed for their production of final nasals. Method: The data were extracted from more than…
Descriptors: Phonetics, African American Children, Phonemes, Articulation (Speech)