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The Growth of Complex Syntax in School-Age African American Children Who Speak African American English
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Bryan K. Murray; Katherine T. Rhodes; Julie A. Washington – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Syntax provides critical support for both academic success and linguistic growth, yet it has not been a focus of language research in school-age African American children. This study examines complex syntax performance of African American children in second through fifth grades. Method: The current study explores the syntactic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Black Dialects, African American Students, Grade 2
Understanding How African American English-Speaking Children Use Inflectional Verb Morphology in Sentence Processing and Word Learning
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Arynn Simone Byrd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examined how linguistic differences between African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE) impact how children process sentences and learn new information. The central hypothesis of this dissertation is that these linguistic differences adversely impact how AAE-speaking children use contrastive inflectional verb…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, North American English, Sentences
Development of Auxiliaries in Young Children Learning African American English
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Newkirk-Turner, Brandi L.; Oetting, Janna B.; Stockman, Ida J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: We examined language samples of young children learning African American English (AAE) to determine if and when their use of auxiliaries shows dialect-universal and dialect-specific effects. Method: The data were longitudinal language samples obtained from two children, ages 18 to 36 months, and three children, ages 33 to 51 months.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Culture, Young Children, Longitudinal Studies
Variable Use of Features Associated with African American English by Typically Developing Children
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Jackson, Janice E.; Pearson, Barbara Zurer – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: The well-known decline in the use of African American English (AAE) features by groups of school-aged AAE-speaking children was reexamined for patterns of overt-, zero-, and mixed-marking for individual features and individual speakers. Methods: Seven hundred twenty-nine typically developing children between the ages of 4 and 12--511…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Black Dialects, Language Tests, North American English
Dialectical Features of Black Characters in Situation Comedies on Television.
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Fine, Marlene G.; Anderson, Carolyn – Phylon, 1980
Three prime time television situation comedies with primarily Black casts were studied for frequency and variations in use of Black English Vernacular (BEV). It is suggested that homogenization of BEV on American television reflects the attitude that BEV is not a legitimate language choice. (GC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
On Social, Regional, and Age Variation in Black English
Troike, Rudolph C. – Florida FL Reporter, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Nonstandard Dialects
Gender Difference in Use of Nonstandard Linguistic Variables between Male and Female African-American Adolescents and Adults in America's "Middletown."
Huang, Xiaozhao – 1999
A study analyzed the use of six nonstandard linguistic variables by eight adolescent and eight adult African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), each group equally divided into males and females, from Muncie, Indiana. The study was designed to investigate whether occupation, a social variable, also determines AAVE speakers' use of nonstandard…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Black Dialects
Non-Standard English in Norfolk City Schools.
DeVere, Louise A. – 1971
It is the intent of this Master's Thesis to describe the nonstandard morphology and syntax of a representative sample of children in the Norfolk City schools. The description is organized according to the linguistic patterning of nonstandard English features and their social and ethnic distribution. The speech of both white and Negro children is…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Educationally Disadvantaged, Ethnic Distribution