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Houston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1970
In dealing with the differences between the school and non-school language of Black children, the author uses a contingency grammar," which considers all speakers of a language to have the identical linguistics competence but includes a level of systematic performance" to account for dialectal and other systematic differences. (FB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Language Styles, Linguistic Competence
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Houston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Comprehension, Dialects, Generative Grammar, Language Research
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Kronenfeld, David B. – Language Sciences, 1979
Examines the innate faculties that underlie linguistic competence, especially syntactic competence, and proposes a theory of these faculties which accounts for the complexities of language and the evolution of human language. (AM)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Ability