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Labov, William – Florida F L Rep, 1969
Takes issue with the widely-held notion that urban black children are verbally deprived. Slightly revised version of a paper presented, in part, at the Georgetown University 20th Round Table, Washington, D.C., March 1969. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged, Educational Psychology
Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt – Reading Research Quarterly, 1970
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Disadvantaged, Interference (Language), Lower Class Students
Peer reviewedJacobson, Rodolfo – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Contends that despite many overlapping characteristics, second dialect teaching requires a methodology distinct from that used in second language teaching, and discusses psychological, sociological, cultural, and linguistic aspects of second dialect teaching. (FB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Background, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedGiles, Howard; Bourhis, Richard Y. – Language Sciences, 1975
An investigation is reported which was designed to determine to what extent second generation male West Indians have accommodated to local white speech norms in the city of Cardiff. (RM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Ethnic Groups
Reveron, Wilhelmina W. – 1988
A bibliography on Black Americans contains over 450 citations of articles, papers, monographs, and books in seven categories: culture (language and customs); normal speech and language acquisition (theoretical framework, mother-child interaction, language community, form, content, usage, cognitive development); sociolinguistics (issues, dialect…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Communication Disorders
Peer reviewedPixton, William H. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
While a student's intimate speech is his own business; not teaching him to speak and write standard English will seriously handicap him in his future life. (JH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Language Standardization, Linguistics
Shores, David L. – South Atlantic Bulletin, 1974
Examines attitudes in the Black community towards the topic of Black English and specifically the controversy about the relationship of the speech of Blacks to that of Whites, the distinctive features in the speaking and writing of Black college students, and the attitudes of Black educators. Available from South Atlantic Modern Language…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language)
Download full textHilliard, Asa G., III – 1980
Much of the language and many constructs used in testing and assessment must be redefined in order for testing instruments to be valid for use with children of African-American descent. These children are products of unique linguistic environments. Current educational assessment tools are insensitive to the cultural-linguistic diversity of the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
WEENER, PAUL DAVID – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF PHONETIC, SYNTACTIC, AND SEMANTIC DIALECT DIFFERENCES ON COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PERSONS FROM DIFFERENT DIALECT COMMUNITIES. THE THREE HYPOTHESES UPON WHICH THE STUDY WAS BASED STATED THAT PHONETIC, SYNTACTIC, AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF DIALECT DIFFERENCES WOULD EACH CONTRIBUTE TO…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Children, Dialect Studies, Language Research
Reed, Carroll E. – 1977
This book examines dialect variations in the United States. Chapter topics include an introduction to dialect study, colonial English, eastern settlement, eastern words, eastern pronunciation, eastern grammar, the westward movement, sectional atlas studies (the Great Lakes, the Upper Middle West, Texas, Colorado and other Rocky Mountain areas,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Styles
O'Hern, Edna M.
This study describes the segmental phonemes of five 4-year-old speakers of Black English, and analyzes both their language development and ethnic characteristics. The study group of Negro children, born and living in Washington, D.C., came from homes that met two of three specified criteria based on the mother's education and family income. The…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Ethnic Studies, Language Acquisition
Wright, Richard – 1973
Recently much linguistic research has been amassed on black language. With rare exceptions, this linguistic research has been directed to the lower working-class members of the black community. The language of blacks who are not lower class, on the other hand, has been summarily ignored, resulting in the middle-class black protest against the…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Dialects, Black Stereotypes, Language Research
Tarone, Elaine E. – 1972
Intonation patterns of Black English were studied and compared with those occurring in White English and formal Black English. It was found that: (1) the Black English corpus was characterized by a wider pitch range, extending into higher pitch levels than either the White vernacular or the formal Black English of the adult information; (2) a…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, English
Harrington, Judith
The material in this 125-item annotated bibliography is limited primarily to articles and reports published during 1971. The resources used were those available in the greater Rochester, N.Y., area. The Rochester Regional Library Council's "Union List of Serials" was the authority used for serial holdings of area libraries. ERIC document numbers,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Literature Reviews, Nonstandard Dialects
Wiggins, Rudolph Valentino – 1971
To investigate black children's attitudes towards reading material written in standard English and Black English forms, third and fourth grade children from two elementary schools with a predominantly black population were asked to listen to tapes of two versions of a story--one written in standard English and the other in Black English. The…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Childhood Attitudes, Dialect Studies, Grade 3
