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Download full textWilliams, Frederick, Ed.; And Others – 1971
In this second of two studies conducted with portions of the National Speech and Hearing Survey data, the investigators analyzed the phonetic variants from standard American English in the speech of two groups of nonstandard English speaking children. The study used samples of free speech and performance on the Gold-Fristoe Test of Articulation…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Minority Group Children
Kernan, Claudia Mitchell – 1971
Based on research conducted in Oakland, California, between 1965 and 1967, this dissertation explores some aspects of language behavior in a black working-class community. Chapter 1 deals with selected features of the code which serve to differentiate the speech community from others and compares the findings of the present study with those of…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Doctoral Dissertations
Winkler, Henry J. – 1973
This study was designed to investigate, describe, and compare the intonation patterns of Black English and Standard English speaking children in a reading (formal) and free discourse (informal) situation. Black English was defined as the linguistic code of the subjects sampled from the inner city black poverty area schools, and Standard English as…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Intonation, Language Patterns
Ratusnik, David L.; And Others – 1973
Two lower socioeconomic groups (one black and one white) from the inner city and a third group of white children from a middle socioeconomic suburban area of Chicago were studied to delineate and compare the usage of selected language structures among children of different social and ethnic backgrounds. Usage of each of the test structures was…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Usage
LABOV, WILLIAM – 1966
THE WORK PRESENTED IN THIS STUDY IS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF LANGUAGE. THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ENGLISH DIALECT SPOKEN IN NEW YORK CITY PARALLELS THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CITY'S CHANGING SOCIAL STRUCTURE. DATA GATHERED FROM THE LARGER SPEECH COMMUNITY SHOW THAT THE VARIATION IN INDIVIDUAL SPEECH PATTERNS IS REFLECTED IN A HIGHLY…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Jacobson, Rodolfo – 1976
The objectives of this study were to examine a body of data collected by five graduate students at the University of Texas at San Antonio and to determine, after a careful analysis of the transcribed utterances, whether all instances of language alternations can be truly considered code-switching strategies and whether those that can be so…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies, Dialects
