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Download full textHouston, Susan H. – 1969
The writer, who feels that the chief differences between Black English (BE) and White English (WE) are phonological and not syntactic, reports on a sociolinguistically oriented examination of that variety of English spoken by children in rural Northern Florida (CBE/Fla). Twenty-two black children between the ages of nine and 12 were taped…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Child Language, English
Houston, Susan H. – 1968
On the basis of a study of the language of 22 black children in a rural county of northern Florida, the author states that apart from geographical dialects, there are two "genera" of English: Black (BE) and White (WE). Within each of these genera there are two varieties: Educated and Uneducated. These are further defined by…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies, Economically Disadvantaged
