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Download full textPfaff, Carol W.; Berdan, Robert – 1972
The Dialect Differentiation Measure (DDM) provides an objective, quantifiable means of identifying speakers of Black English. Three production tasks, designed to constrain the range of linguistic constructions with which a child may respond, elicit seven phonological and syntactic features characteristic of Black English. The DDM was tried out in…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Kindergarten
