Socioeconomic Status and Gender Influences on Children's Dialectal Variations

This study compared dialect use by African-American children (30 male and 36 female 5- and 6-year olds) differing in socioeconomic status (SES). Findings indicated systematic differences related to SES and gender in the frequencies but not in the forms of dialect used. Children from lower-income hom...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of speech, language, and hearing research language, and hearing research, 1998-06, Vol.41 (3), p.618-626
Main Authors: Washington, Julie A, Craig, Holly K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American Children
African Americans
Black American people
Black Dialects
Black people
Black Youth
Child
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Detroit
Dialect Studies
Dialects
Female
Gender
Humans
Influences
Language
Language Acquisition
Male
Nonstandard Dialects
Preschool Children
Sex Differences
Sex Factors
Sexes
Social Class
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic Influences
Socioeconomic Status
Speech - physiology
Young Children
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 compared dialect use by African-American children (30 male and 36 female 5- and 6-year olds) differing in socioeconomic status (SES). Findings indicated systematic differences related to SES and gender in the frequencies but not in the forms of dialect used. Children from lower-income homes and boys were more marked dialect users than their middle-class peers or girls. (DB)
ISSN:1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/jslhr.4103.618