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Davis, Margaret Blanche – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the pronunciation of pupils and teachers to determine the deviation from the expected pronunciation for each group, and to determine the influence of dialect on reading performance of pupils. A random sample of 20 first grade pupils and 20 elementary teachers from four small, rural, all-white elementary…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Dialects, Doctoral Dissertations
Download full textWilliamson, Juanita V. – 1968
The purpose of this study is to describe the speech of Negro high school students in Memphis, Tennessee. The study deals with the phonology and grammar of the students' speech. The phonological analysis is limited to a description of the segmental phonemes, their allophones, and their incidence. The grammatical analysis is limited to a description…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Black Youth, Blacks
