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Peer reviewedHouston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1970
In dealing with the differences between the school and non-school language of Black children, the author uses a contingency grammar," which considers all speakers of a language to have the identical linguistics competence but includes a level of systematic performance" to account for dialectal and other systematic differences. (FB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Language Styles, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedHouston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Comprehension, Dialects, Generative Grammar, Language Research
Download full textHouston, Susan H. – 1968
On the basis of a study of the language of 22 black children in a rural county of northern Florida, the author states that apart from geographical dialects, there are two "genera" of English: Black (BE) and White (WE). Within each of these genera there are two varieties: Educated and Uneducated. These are further defined by…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies, Economically Disadvantaged
