Dialect Awareness and Lexical Comprehension of Mainstream American English in African American English–Speaking Children
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Dialect awareness and lexical comprehension of mainstream american english in african american english-speaking children.
PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young African American English (AAE)-speaking children's understanding and awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE). METHOD Eighty-three 4- to 8-year-old AAE-speaking children participated in 2 experimental tasks. One task evaluated their awareness of differences between MAE an...
متن کاملRunning head: Dialect awareness and lexical comprehension of MAE Dialect Awareness and Lexical Comprehension of Mainstream American English in African American English-Speaking Children
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young AAE-speaking children’s understanding and awareness of MAE. Methods: 83 4to 8-year-old African American English-speaking children participated in two experimental tasks. One task evaluated their awareness of differences between Mainstream American English (MAE) and African A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1092-4388,1558-9102
DOI: 10.1044/2014_jslhr-l-13-0228