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Peer reviewedEisikovits, Edina – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
This assumption that non-standard speakers are limited in their linguistic ability is examined based on a larger study investigating the speech of working-class adolescents in Sydney, Australia's inner-city areas. Speech samples of four children are presented. An examination of verbal structures reveals that there is a predominance of simple…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, High School Students, Language Research
