Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
Dialect Studies | 10 |
Syntax | 10 |
Morphology (Languages) | 6 |
Phonology | 5 |
Language Variation | 3 |
Semantics | 3 |
Ambiguity | 2 |
Black Dialects | 2 |
Comparative Analysis | 2 |
Context Effect | 2 |
Diachronic Linguistics | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Bland-Stewart, Linda | 1 |
Connor, Carol McDonald | 1 |
Cutler, Anne | 1 |
Dunn, John A. | 1 |
Green, Lisa J. | 1 |
Johnson, Lakeisha | 1 |
Lipski, John M. | 1 |
Morales, Amparo | 1 |
Pullum, Geoffrey K. | 1 |
Scott, Donia R. | 1 |
Seymour, Harry N. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 10 |
Reports - Research | 5 |
Information Analyses | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Reports - General | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Alaska | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
North Carolina | 1 |
Puerto Rico | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 1 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
Johnson, Lakeisha; Terry, Nicole Patton; Connor, Carol McDonald; Thomas-Tate, Shurita – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The achievement gaps between poor and more affluent students are persistent and chronic, as many students living in poverty are also members of more isolated communities where dialects such as African American English and Southern Vernacular English are often spoken. Non-mainstream dialect use is associated with weaker literacy achievement. The…
Descriptors: Dialects, Dialect Studies, Nonstandard Dialects, Black Dialects
Scott, Donia R.; Cutler, Anne – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
In a comparative study of American English speakers and British English speakers, it was examined whether segmental effects can be used in speech production as cues to syntactic structure. American speakers could use the segmental cues in syntax perception, while British speakers could not. Speakers of British English who were long-term residents…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies, Language Research

Speidel, Gisela E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Describes a study which addressed three questions: (1) Do Hawaiian-English children have the same general ability to understand connected discourse as their standard English-speaking peers? (2) Do they have more difficulty understanding standard English than their own dialect? and (3) Can they more easily understand standard English by making…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialect Studies, English, Hawaiians

Pullum, Geoffrey K. – Language, 1997
Argues that forms represented orthographically as "wanna,""hafta,""gonna,""gotta,""usta," and "sposta" are linked to "want to,""have to," for example, by derivational morphology. Also argues that these to-derivatives inflect on their heads, not their edges, and that they are synonymous with their bases but have different subcategories and more…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Language Styles

Dunn, John A. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies

Shen, Zhongwei – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1987
Summarizes 10 presentations made at the workshop on a variety of topics including: classification of Chinese dialects; the importance of semantic units in tone sandhi; insights on Chinese character recognition among brain-damaged patients; and a cognitive approach to the study of Chinese grammar. (TR)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Grammar

Seymour, Harry N.; Bland-Stewart, Linda; Green, Lisa J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1998
The syntax of 14 child speakers of African American English (AAE) with and without language disorders were compared. Findings suggested that shared features between AAE and Standard American English may be more diagnostically salient than features not shared when identifying children of AAE language backgrounds with language disorders. (DB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Clinical Diagnosis, Dialect Studies

Wolfram, Walt; And Others – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the nature of language diversity in the small, isolated community of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, where a lone African American family has resided for over 130 years. (57 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Context Effect, Cultural Isolation

Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1989
An overview of contemporary Hispanic dialectology, focusing on phonological phenomena, syntax, classification schemes, and bilingual communities, demonstrates that dialectology has long ceased to be the collection of innumerable surface deviations. It is suggested that dialectology is a theoretical discipline searching for universal principles to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Hispanic American Culture, Language Classification

Morales, Amparo – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the Puerto Rican dialect and its peculiar placement of subject pronouns. Notes the linguistic variety in the dialect as well as its use of verbs connotating mental and communicative activity and constructions of relativity. These distinctions give rise to the functional hypothesis to account for the peculiarities of Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar