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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 textDumas, Bethany K. – 1974
A survey of written and spoken Tennessee English was recently begun. Work is in progress on the first stage of the project, which involves the compilation of a bibliography. Data from the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) and the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) will be examined in planning the survey itself. The next stage…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, English, Language Research, Language Styles
Williamson, 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
