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Towards Inclusive Low-Resource Speech Technologies: A Case Study of Educational Systems for African American English-Speaking Children
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Alexander Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The potential of speech technology to improve educational outcomes has been a topic of great interest in recent years. For example, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems could be employed to provide kindergarten-aged children with real-time feedback on their literacy and pronunciation as they practice reading aloud. Within these systems,…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Black Dialects, African American Students, Equal Education
"Va-et-Vient," the Goin' and Comin' of Infinitival 'TO': A Study of Children with and without Specific Language Impairment in Cajun English
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Andrew 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
Children's Production of Verbal -S by Dialect Type and Clinical Status
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Lesli H. Cleveland – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The study examined children's use of verbal -s marking (e.g., he "walks") in two nonmainstream dialects of English, African American English (AAE), and Southern White English (SWE). Verbal -s marking was of interest because there are gaps in the literature about the nature of this structure within and across typically developing children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialects, Black Dialects, Whites