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Direct linkde Villiers, Jill G.; Johnson, Valerie E. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
The production of third-person /s/ on English verbs seems to be ahead of comprehension. Mainstream American English (MAE) is contrasted with African American English (AAE), in which /s/ is rarely supplied. Two studies explored what information children get solely from /s/ on the end of a verb. Sixty-five MAE- and 65 AAE-speaking four- to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, North American English, Dialects
