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Lanier, Dorothy Copeland – 1974
The two purposes of this study were to analyze the linguistic studies of the speech of black Americans which began in 1865 and ended in 1972 and to determine, on the basis of the studies analyzed, whether or not a black dialect exists. First, 73 studies were read and analyzed; second, these studies were categorized according to the investigators'…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research
Birmingham, John C., Jr. – 1976
It seems highly likely that many of the features of Black American English can be traced back to the Afro-Portuguese Creole dialects that sprang up in the fifteenth century in Portuguese slave camps along the West African coast, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea area, the area of greatest concentration of activity during the slave trade. This…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
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King, Viola – Language Arts, 1976
At the prekindergarten and kindergarten age, children generally appear to be oblivious to dialect differences and fail to associate these differences in language variety with black speakers. (JH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Kindergarten Children, Language Research
Chew, John J. – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1976
This article describes a process by which the number of apparent cognates between Standard Japanese and the Hirara dialect increased, a process in conflict with the accepted theory that as time goes by, the number of cognates between related languages declines. (CLK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Japanese, Language Research, Language Variation
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McDavid, Raven I., Jr. – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Current work in American dialectology is summarized and commented on. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (RM)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Usage
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Hall, William S.; Freedle, Roy O. – Human Development, 1973
Data are reported and interpreted involving language imitation, comprehension, and free production of two English dialects. Results indicate that the two dialect systems function behaviorally as separate cognitive systems. (ST)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialect Studies
Underwood, Gary N. – 1974
This paper reports on the Arkansas Language Survey, which had two purposes: (1) to explore the idea advanced by Labov that Americans generally have negative attitudes about their language, and to see to what extent this applies to Arkansawyers; and (2) to determine how Arkansawyers judge the way other Americans speak English. The twenty-four white…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage
Fickett, Joan G. – 1970
Since the early sixties, the need has existed for linguistic description of the language of the inner city. This dissertation was written to meet this need. Data were collected over a period of two years using the field methods of anthropological linguistics as adapted to an urban situation. Analysis in terms of the data yields a description that…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Dialect Studies, Grammar
Davis, Lawrence M. – 1971
This study presents an analysis of the speech of twenty-five informants, who were born in eastern Kentucky or southern West Virginia. Six of them were interviewed in Kentucky, where they still live; the others now live in Chicago, in an area known as Uptown. The phonological data is described in terms similar to the Chomsky-Halle feature analysis…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Generative Grammar
Annino, Tudini – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
Research conducted in the Italian town of Pescasseroli revealed that cultural changes had provoked various changes in the local dialect. This dialect had been greatly transfored in the last 15 years by the modification or disappearance of old cultural models and the intrusion of new ones. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies
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Loflin, Marvin D.; Guyette, Thomas – Linguistics, 1976
The proposition that education affects dialect to a significant degree is examined. The findings leave doubt whether an educational differential is adequate to explain the maintenance of dialect differences between ethnic groups. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Education
Rubin, Donald L. – 1989
Because the language of a multiple choice test is formal and often unfamiliar, certain linguistic features may lead a test-taker to misconstrue the test instructions, questions, or answers. When this happens, a shared understanding of meaning between tester and test-taker is not present, and the test results are invalid. Although this problem…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, English, Item Bias
Awa, Njoku E. – 1974
The first section of this paper is a general discussion of standard English. The nine sections which follow discuss the concept of correctness and the ideological differences between grammarians and purists; standard English in a historical perspective; Eric Partridge's (1969) taxonomy of the degrees and kinds of standard English, including…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialect Studies, Educational Research, Language Patterns
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Bonwick, James, Comp. – 1967
This is a reprint of a work published in 1873. Cross-referenced definitions of languages and dialects, geographical areas, native peoples, and philological terms comprise the major portion of this book. Approximately 4,200 entries are included. An intoduction describes the geographical distribution of major languages. [Not available in hard copy…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, Geographic Distribution
Frentz, Thomas S. – Speech Monographs, 1971
Based on author's doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin. (Editor)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies, Language Research
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