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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
