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Roy, Joseph; Oetting, Janna B.; Wynn Moland, Christy – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Overt marking of "BE" in nonmainstream adult dialects of English is influenced by a number of linguistic constraints, including the structure's person, number, tense, contractibility, and grammatical function. In the current study, the authors examined the effects of these constraints on overt marking of "BE" in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Black Dialects, African American Children, English
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Green, Lisa; Roeper, Thomas – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This article considers the comprehension of tense-aspect markers remote past BIN and habitual be by 3- to 5-year-old developing African American English (AAE)-speaking children and their Southwest Louisiana Vernacular English (SwLVE)-speaking peers. Overall both groups of children associated BIN with the distant past; however, the AAE-speaking…
Descriptors: North American English, Syntax, Semantics, Indigenous Knowledge
Nagle, Stephen J., Ed.; Sanders, Sara L., Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers provides a broad overview of the foundations of, and current research on, language variation in the southern United States, exploring historical and cultural elements, iconic contemporary features, and current changes in progress. The 12 papers are: (1) "The Origins of Southern American English" (John Algeo);…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Grammar, Language Usage