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When It Comes to Explaining: A Preliminary Investigation of the Expository Language Skills of African American School-Age Children
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Koonce, Nicole M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This research investigated the expository language of school-age speakers of African American English. Specifically, the study describes the language productivity, syntax, and pragmatic features present in expository language samples produced by African American children and compares their performance with White children in the extant literature.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Syntax
African American Preschoolers' Emotion Explanations Can Provide Evidence of Their Pragmatic Skills
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Curenton, Stephanie M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This study provides qualitative and quantitative evidence of how an emotion explanation task can reflect African American preschoolers' pragmatic skills. We used an emotion explanation task to assess pragmatic skills among 19 children (aged 3-5 years) related to (1) engaging in conversational turn-taking, (2) answering "Wh-" questions,…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Pragmatics
Phonetic Variability in Residual Speech Sound Disorders: Exploration of Subtypes
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Preston, Jonathan L.; Koenig, Laura L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Purpose: To explore whether subgroups of children with residual speech sound disorders (R-SSDs) can be identified through multiple measures of token-to-token phonetic variability (changes in one spoken production to the next). Method: Children with R-SSDs were recorded during a rapid multisyllabic picture naming task and an oral diadochokinetic…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonetics, Language Skills, Speech Impairments