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Bailey, Beryl Loftman – Florida F L Rep, 1969
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, February 1968. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cultural Differences
Garvey, Catherine; Dickstein, Ellen – 1970
Previous studies have demonstrated that certain differences in speech behavior can be related to the social characteristics of speakers. However, these studies have not explicitly examined the effect of level of linguistic analysis on correlations observed between language variables and status variables. Three levels of analysis of a linguistic…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, Child Language, Cognitive Ability
Snow, Catherine E.; And Others – 1987
Formal definitions are one example of "decontextualized" language use, in which reliance on background knowledge shared with the interlocutor is minimized, and use of conversational devices is avoided. Definitions of English nouns by 137 second- to fifth-grade children, about half of whom were non-native English speakers, were analyzed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Child Language, Children