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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...
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Published in: | Journal of speech and hearing research 1994-08, Vol.37 (4), p.816-823 |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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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) |
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ISSN: | 0022-4685 1092-4388 1558-9102 |
DOI: | 10.1044/jshr.3704.816 |