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Peer reviewedMoran, Michael J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
This study examined whether African-American children (n=10; ages 4-9) who deleted final consonants marked the presence of those consonants in some fashion. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, suggesting that the children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Children, Consonants
