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Download full textDeStefano, Johanna S. – 1972
Registers--language varieties set apart from other varieties by the social circumstances of their use--are linguistic universals operating in all speech communities. Ghetto black children learn to control registers pertinent to the domain of family and neighborhood--most of which are spoken in their vernacular. Ghetto children are also expected to…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Grade 1, Grade 3
