Thirty Black and Anglo kindergarten children from lower and middle income neighborhoods were asked to respond to three different tasks in an effort to investigate seven phonological and syntactical features of Black English and to determine the utility of each elicitation procedure. The interviews consisted of three production tasks which required the child to give some information about a set of pictures; a sentence repetition task which contained the same linguistic constructions; and a storytelling task which elicited continuous, spontaneous speech. The findings were these: (1) three kinds of differences were found between nonstandard usage of Black and Anglo children; (2) forms of nonstandard usage differed in some instances; (3) Anglo children generalized the use of agreement; (4) only Black children used "have" and "do" with no agreement; (5) the rate of nonstandard usage differed between the two groups; (6) Black children more often used the nonstandard form of each construction; (7) nonstandard patterns of usage differed; (8) the implicational relationships among features for Black children did not appear to hold for Anglo children; (9) income level among Black children did not correlate with linguistic usage; and (10) the production tasks appeared to elicit the most fruitful corpus of data. (HS)