Index of productive syntax for children who speak African American English.

NIH Contract N01-DC8-2104: Development and Validation of a Language Test for Children Speaking Non-Standard English: A Study of Children Who Speak African American English

Language Deficits or Differences: What We Know about African American Vernacular English in the 21st Century

This focus of this paper is to present an overview of the current research which examines the language and literacy performance of African American children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as presented from a deficit versus difference perspective. Language and literacy and assessment and remediation of AAVE speakers are discussed in sections one and two. Section three of t...

Investigating the influence of virtual peers as dialect models on students' prosodic inventory

Children who speak non-standard dialects of English show reduced performance not just in language-oriented topics in school but also in math and science. Technological solutions have been rare exactly because of the nonmainstream nature of their talk, and hence the difficulty in automatically recognizing their speech and responding to it with, for example, computer tutors. In order to work towa...

The challenge of language assessment for african american english-speaking children: a historical perspective.

The diagnostic problem of how validly to assess the language of children who speak dialects different from Mainstream American English (MAE) has challenged the field of communication disorders for several decades. The key to its solution is to recognize differences due to dialect or development and remove them from the initial diagnosis of a disorder. A new approach to the puzzle, implemented j...

Evaluating the Grammars of Children Who Speak Nonmainstream Dialects of English.

In this article, we review three responses to the study and evaluation of grammar in children who speak nonmainstream dialects of English. Then we introduce a fourth, system-based response that views nonmainstream dialects of English, such as African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as made up of dialect-specific and dialect-universal features. To illustrate the usefulnes...