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Piazza, Giorgio; Martin, Clara D.; Kalashnikova, Marina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel hyperarticulation and low speech rate as the most representative acoustic features of FDS; other features, including wide pitch range and high intensity, are still under…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Vowels, Articulation (Speech)
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Peele-Eady, Tryphenia B.; Foster, Michèle L. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
Despite the substantive body of research on African American Language (AAL), designating it a meaningful, rule-governed language system and the first language of many African Americans, schools in the US have systematically failed to integrate a language policy related to African American English learners (AAELs). In this article, we employ a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Native Language, Language Planning
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Harris, Yvette R.; Schroeder, Valarie M. – International Education Studies, 2013
This focus of this paper is to present an overview of the current research which examines the language and literacy performance of African American children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as presented from a deficit versus difference perspective. Language and literacy and assessment and remediation of AAVE speakers are…
Descriptors: African American Students, Children, Black Dialects, Native Language