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Direct linkAndrew Mandell Riviere – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine Cajun English (CE)-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO. To do this, CE-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO was compared to the marking of infinitival TO by Southern White English (SWE)- and African American English (AAE)-speaking children. Marking of infinitival TO also was examined as a…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Dialects, Kindergarten, Young Children
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
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
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
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
Ward, Martha Coonfield – 1971
This is a study of how children in a small community called Rosepoint, in the vicinity of New Orleans, acquire speech. The author provides essential contextualization for her problem, dealing with family composition, life space, means used to control children, and interaction between members of the household. The author made intensive observations…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Cultural Influences, Ethnology
Download full textWalker, Ursula Genung – 1968
In order to test whether certain structures characteristic of West African languages are also present in the Negro English dialect of Natchitoches Parich, Louisiana, 355 short autobiographical papers written by Negro high school students were analyzed. Another 355 papers written by white high school students were used as controls. The papers were…
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Black Education, College English
