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Peer reviewedOetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
This study extended the study of specific language impairments (SLI) to two non-mainstream dialects: a rural version of Southern African American English and a rural version of Southern White English using language samples from 93 4- to 6-year-olds in Louisiana. Findings indicated the surface characteristics of SLI manifested in the two dialects…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Nonstandard Dialects
