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Peer reviewedNelson, Linda Williamson – Journal of Education, 1990
Code-switching is examined in oral narratives of 30 African-American women as they switched from Standard English to Black English Vernacular. A little over half of the speakers assign positive values to their code switches. Examples are given from interviews with two subjects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Bidialectalism, Black Dialects, Blacks
Download full textGranger, Robert C.; Crane, Judith – 1977
This study compares the ability of 37 Standard-English-speaking graduate students to comprehend Black English versions of a set of 45 utterances with the ability of 37 comparable students to comprehend Standard English versions of the same utterances. Of the two stimulus tapes used (consisting of 45 sentences each), one was recorded in Black…
Descriptors: Adults, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Graduate Students
