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Fasold, Ralph W.; Wolfram, Walt – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1972
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Download full textWolfram, Walt – 1992
A construction occurring in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is examined: NPi "call" NPi V"-ing", as in "the woman call herself working." First, a number of reasons that such a form might be overlooked or dismissed as an AAVE dialect form are outlined. Then the sociolinguistic method is applied to the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
Williams, Ronald; Wolfram, Walt – 1974
The characteristics of several nonstandard dialects of American English are presented in this paper in the form of an inventory of features. It has been compiled with the recognition that nonstandard dialects are governed by pronunciation and grammatical rules and that within the broad category of nonstandard dialects, regional and ethnic…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Wolfram, Walt; Christian, Donna – 1975
The aim of the research reported here was to describe dialect diversity in Appalachia (Monroe and Mercer Counties, West Virginia) and to examine the possible effect of this diversity on education. The present volume contains the first two parts of the report, the third being submitted separately. The first part includes chapters 1-5, the second…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar, Language Research
Wolfram, Walt; And Others – 1971
This research is an attempt to determine the relative influence of Black English and Puerto Rican Spanish in the speech of Puerto Ricans raised contiguous to the black community in Harlem. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the study of this variety of Puerto Rican English and a description of the sample on which this study is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Community, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth
Christian, Donna; Wolfram, Walt – 1979
An understanding of dialect differences goes beyond the recognition that people talk differently; it concerns the way dialects differentiate themselves, the main differences in the patterns, and the method of discovering the patterns of various dialects. This booklet is intended for those who need to know more specific information concerning the…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Attitudes
Wolfram, Walt; Christian, Donna – 1976
This description of Appalachian speech, derived from one part of the final report of a research project on Appalachian Dialects, is intended as a reference work for educators, particularly reading specialists, English teachers, language arts specialists, and speech pathologists. Chapters deal with the following main topics: (1) a sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
