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Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
This study compared three methods for identifying non-mainstream dialect use: listener judgment ratings, type-based counts of non-mainstream pattern use, token- based counts. Correct dialect classifications were made for 88 to 97 percent of participants, although regression algorithms had to be applied to the type- and token-based results. For…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Dialects