Loading…

Dialectal Forms During Discourse of Poor, Urban, African American Preschoolers

This study examined nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms used by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American children. Distributional analyses revealed three subgroups distinguished by the percentage frequencies of occurrence of utterances containing specific forms and by the predom...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of speech and hearing research 1994-08, Vol.37 (4), p.816-823
Main Authors: Washington, Julie A, Craig, Holly K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This study examined nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms used by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American children. 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. (Author)
ISSN:0022-4685
1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/jshr.3704.816