Dialectal Forms During Discourse of Poor, Urban, African American Preschoolers
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Dialectal forms during discourse of poor, urban, African American preschoolers.
This study describes nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms used by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American boys and girls. Distributional analyses revealed three subgroups distinguished by the percentage frequencies of occurrence of utterances containing specific forms, and by the predominant types used by each group. Implications for characterizing the linguistic production...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1092-4388,1558-9102
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3704.816