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Toby Macrae; Rachel Hoge; Kelly Farquharson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare word-initial and word-final consonant cluster productions in young children who speak African American English (AAE) and compare their productions to what we know about cluster productions in children who speak Mainstream American English (MAE), in order to minimize misdiagnosis of speech sound…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Preschool Children, Black Dialects, African American Children
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Kite-Powell, Rodney – Social Education, 2013
Produced by cartographers of many nations over the course of six centuries, maps detailing Florida and the North American continent tell tales of exploration, conflict, and change. Before 1492, Europeans were unaware of what existed on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. That reality is illustrated quite well on two maps that show the…
Descriptors: United States History, North Americans, Foreign Countries, Maps
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Rodriguez, Liliana; Schwartz, Seth J.; Whitbourne, Susan Krauss – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
The present mixed-methods study investigated meanings and affective valences ascribed to "American identity" and the ways in which these meanings and valences relate to ethnic and personal identity. The data were collected from 2004 to 2006 and used a multiethnic sample of 287 college students residing in Miami, Florida. Subjective…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Cultural Influences, Self Concept, College Students
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Bonvillian, John D.; Ingram, Vicky L.; McCleary, Brendan M. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
The accounts of two men who participated in several Spanish-led expeditions to the New World in the early 1500s document the frequent use of manual signs and gestures in the initial interactions between European explorers and the indigenous peoples of North America. Bernal Diaz del Castillo described the events that occurred during three…
Descriptors: American Indians, Foreign Countries, North Americans, Observation
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Kohler, Candida T.; Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Bryant, Judith Becker; Apel, Kenn; Wilkinson, Louise C. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To evaluate the role of dialect on phonemic awareness and nonword spelling tasks. These tasks were selected for their reliance on phonological and orthographic processing, which may be influenced by dialect use. Method: Eighty typically developing African American children in Grades 1 and 3 were first screened for dialect use and then…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, North American English, Spelling, Phonemic Awareness
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Rogers, Catherine L.; Dalby, Jonathan; Nishi, Kanae – Language and Speech, 2004
This study compared the intelligibility of native and foreign-accented English speech presented in quiet and mixed with three different levels of background noise. Two native American English speakers and four native Mandarin Chinese speakers for whom English is a second language each read a list of 50 phonetically balanced sentences (Egan, 1948).…
Descriptors: North American English, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)