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Peer reviewedSpanos, George A. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1979
Reports on research into the use of the particle "-le" by native speakers of Chinese. (AM)
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Grammar, Language Research
Nurss, Joanne R.; Day, David E. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by a United States Office of Education grant. (DS)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Children, Grammar
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
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
Carter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael – 1994
This paper argues that second language instruction that aims to foster speaking skills and natural spoken interaction should be based upon the grammar of the spoken language, and not on grammars that reflect written norms. Using evidence from a corpus of conversational English, this examination focuses on how four grammatical features that occur…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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
