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Peer reviewedBlake, Ira Kincade – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
Transcribed the speech of 3 African-American mothers and their 19- to 27-month-old children over a 9-month period. Compared to the language of Euro-American children described in earlier studies, the language of these African-American children developed similarly in length and semantic-syntactic relations but included more talk about needs, wants,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Longitudinal Studies
