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Mays, Luberta – 1974
This four-part study, which focused on the relationship between the incidence of Black English and the child's perception that Black English is not preferred speech, identified the phonological characteristics in the dialect speech of black second grade children of low socioeconomic background in New York City public schools. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, English