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Peer reviewedGarcia, Ricardo L. – English Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedDoerr, Richard P. – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Lexicology, Regional Dialects
Download full textLe Page, R. B. – 1974
This paper is intended as an outline synthesis of what is presently known about the processes of pidginization and creolization. Section 1 deals with the linguistic processes of pidginization under the following headings: (1) the learned expectancies of how to behave in a contact situation, (2) necessity and heightened attention, (3) redundancy,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
Wolfram, Walt, Ed.; Clarke, Nona H., Ed. – 1971
Exploring the issue of black and white speech differences, the articles reprinted in this anthology span several decades and are to be viewed in a historical perspective. Turner (1948) examines Gullah, the creole language spoken off the coast of South Carolina. McDavid and McDavid (1951) attempt to identify the different influences on the speech…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
Light, Richard L. – English Record, 1971
Four nonstandard linguistic features used by five black children, ages 6-11 years, in 14 conversations were recorded and transcribed. The interviewers included male and female adults, Negro and white. The four nonstandard linguistic features were multiple negation, and absence of the Z suffixes marking noun plural, possession, and the third person…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
Yallop, Colin – Journal of the Australian College of Speech Therapists, 1972
Revised version of a paper presented to the Australian College of Speech Therapists, Sydney, Australia, May 27, 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Consonants, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
Criado de Val, Manuel – Yelmo, 1974
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedQazilbash, Husain – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Problems, Dialect Studies, Idioms
Peer reviewedCullen, Constance – English Quarterly, 1971
Article describes 1970 research project of Kinkora area. Discussed are English words used on Island and in P. E. I. and The Dictionary of Canadianisms. (AF)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedMilroy, James; And Others – Language Variation and Change, 1994
The empirical basis for this article is a series of studies of glottalization in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. These studies show that, while females lead in the use of glottal replacement, males prefer glottalization. This pattern is interpreted in terms of a preference of males for localized variants, whereas females lead in adopting supra-local…
Descriptors: Consonants, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns
Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1999
Comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. Discusses comparative investigation of two kinds of linguistic decay:…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
O'Neill, George Joseph, Jr. – 1972
This study traces the syntactic interference of the dialect of 176 black children (grades 1-6) living in south-central Los Angeles when they attempt to speak standard English in the school and correlates the amount of interference with certain socioeconomic variables. Syntactical interference items investigated include verb agreement, tense,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses the applicability of the notion of structured variability in language to contrastive analysis. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Research
McDavid, Raven I., Jr.; O'Cain, Raymond K. – Kansas Journal of Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution, Geographic Regions, Language Patterns
Hopper, Robert – Kansas Journal of Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Black Community, Cultural Background, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education
