ERIC Number: ED089303
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Publication Date: 1973-Nov
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An Extension of the Southern Illinois Black Dialect Project into Phonology.
Van Syoc, Bryce
The protocol materials on phonology in black nonstandard dialects prepared for use by a group of elementary teacher trainees are described. The thirteen phonological concepts studied include: (1) free variation of sounds or full phonemes; (2) the loss of the /r/ phoneme, except in initial position in a syllable; (3) the omission of final single consonants and the final consonant of a consonant cluster; (4) the partial loss of a final consonant; (5) the loss of initial and medial consonants; (6) the intrusion of consonants, forming variant initial and final consonant clusters; (7) the syllabic reduction; (8) the substitution of static vowels for diphthongs; (9) the lengthening of a nasal after a vowel in order to avoid consonant clusters; (10) the substitution of a nasalized vowel for a nasal plus another consonant; (11) the transposition of sounds and junctures; (12) the nature of pitch phonemes; and (13) the nature of syllabic stress. It was hoped that these materials would give teachers a better change to understand the black child who speaks a black dialect and that these protocols, when disseminated together with the syntax and morphology protocol materials, would make a packet of linguistic material helpful to the teacher. (HOD)
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Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (63rd, Philadelphia, November 22-24, 1973)