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Roy, Joseph; Oetting, Janna B.; Wynn Moland, Christy – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Overt marking of "BE" in nonmainstream adult dialects of English is influenced by a number of linguistic constraints, including the structure's person, number, tense, contractibility, and grammatical function. In the current study, the authors examined the effects of these constraints on overt marking of "BE" in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Black Dialects, African American Children, English
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Friend, Tressa J.; Channell, Ron W. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Comparison of the Picture Vocabulary subtest of the Test of Language Development--Primary (TOLD-P-PV) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised (PPVT-R) with first- through third-graders (N=48) revealed a strong correlation between the two receptive vocabulary measures. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Language Handicaps, Language Skills