This study examined whether African-American children (n=10; ages 4-9) who deleted final consonants marked the presence of those consonants in some fashion. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, suggesting that the children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived…

This memorandum is a systematic listing and description of the salient features of English phonology and morphology, accompanied by a listing of parallel features in nonstandard dialects that account for the difficulties the speakers of nonstandard speech experience in the acquisition of standard English. The dialects considered are English as…

This study examines the pronunciation characteristics of Negro and white children from different socio-economic classes in Gainesville, Florida. As expected, there are significant differences between the white and Negro children. However, all of the Negroes and the higher whites produce both "General American" and "Southern" dialect…