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Newkirk-Turner, Brandi L.; Oetting, Janna B.; Stockman, Ida J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: We examined language samples of young children learning African American English (AAE) to determine if and when their use of auxiliaries shows dialect-universal and dialect-specific effects. Method: The data were longitudinal language samples obtained from two children, ages 18 to 36 months, and three children, ages 33 to 51 months.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Culture, Young Children, Longitudinal Studies
Newbrook, Mark – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1989
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a number of syntactic phenomena in modern English, specifically but not exclusively in British English, that can be characterized as urban/suburban near-standard usage. These phenomena are representative of a type of feature that has to date received relatively little attention from linguists. One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation, Standard Spoken Usage