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Download full textJaggar, Angela M.; Cullinan, Bernice E. – 1975
The competence of school-aged, black children in standard English (SE) grammatical forms, specifically, six verb structures that distinguish Black English from SE, is the focus of this study. The subjects were 198 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade black children who attend four Title I schools in the New York City metropolitan area.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Educational Research, Grammar
Loman, Bengt – 1982
A fundamental problem in the study of spontaneous speech is how to segment it for analysis. The segments should be relevant for the study of linguistic structures, speech planning, speech production, or communication strategies. Operational rules for segmentation should consider a wide variety of criteria and be hierarchically ordered. This is…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Dialects
Smitherman, Geneva; Wright, Sandra – 1984
Using data consisting of descriptive and expressive-narrative essays written in 1969 and 1979 by black 17-year-old students in the stratified probability sample from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a study investigated which language patterns differentiated the NAEP essays written by black students in 1969 from those…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies
Steffensen, Margaret S.; And Others – 1981
A study investigated one aspect of the speech/reading comprehension relationship--that between the ability to select the correct standard English verbal endings (-s and -ed) and the ability to recognize the tense of a passage when time information was encoded primarily in the verbs and adverbs. Subjects were 135 third, sixth, and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education
Williamson, Juanita V. – 1968
The purpose of this study is to describe the speech of Negro high school students in Memphis, Tennessee. The study deals with the phonology and grammar of the students' speech. The phonological analysis is limited to a description of the segmental phonemes, their allophones, and their incidence. The grammatical analysis is limited to a description…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Black Youth, Blacks
Fasold, Ralph W. – 1972
In recent years a considerable amount of interest has developed in language variability and in the educational problems connected with it. This volume is a report of linguistic research on the variable language behavior in a community of American English speakers, specifically on some aspects of tense marking in Black English. The following topics…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Studies, Dialect Studies, Grammar
BARATZ, JOAN C.; POVICH, EDNA – 1968
LANGUAGE SAMPLES OF 20 NEGRO HEAD START CHILDREN IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WERE ANALYZED USING LEE'S (1966) DEVELOPMENTAL SENTENCE TYPES MODEL. THE TRANSFORMATIONS AND RESTRICTED FORMS OF THESE CHILDREN WERE THEN COMPARED WITH THE RESULTS THAT MENYUK (1964) OBTAINED FOR MIDDLE CLASS PRESCHOOLERS. RESULTS INDICATE THAT THE ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED CHILD IS…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
