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Koonce, Nicole M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This research investigated the expository language of school-age speakers of African American English. Specifically, the study describes the language productivity, syntax, and pragmatic features present in expository language samples produced by African American children and compares their performance with White children in the extant literature.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Syntax
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Jackson, Janice E.; Pearson, Barbara Zurer – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: The well-known decline in the use of African American English (AAE) features by groups of school-aged AAE-speaking children was reexamined for patterns of overt-, zero-, and mixed-marking for individual features and individual speakers. Methods: Seven hundred twenty-nine typically developing children between the ages of 4 and 12--511…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Black Dialects, Language Tests, North American English