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Download full textWeaver, Constance Waltz – 1970
The recent work by sociolinguists is more accurate for consideration of urban dialects than is the analysis provided in the "Linguistic Atlas" materials. The sociolinguists' work shows that the use of nonstandard phonological and grammatical features varies according to one's socioeconomic status, ethnic background, speech context, age,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Ethnology
Harber, Jean R., Comp. – 1976
Much research and writing has been carried out in recent years in an attempt to account for and eliminate, or at least minimize, the poor performance of many Black, lower-socioeconomic status, urban children in our schools. This annotated bibliography lists articles, books, and papers that explore the theoretical frameworks employed to describe…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, English
Gantt, Walter – 1977
Based on transcribed conversations with black children in kindergarten and the intermediate grades, a study was devised to determine whether black urban children from lower socioeconomic areas speak a systematic, consistent form of nonstandard English, and if so, to provide a syntactical analysis of the dialect of nonstandard speakers. Speech…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children
Folb, Edith A. – 1972
A current vocabulary of argot terms and meanings was collected from a Black male control group in the South Central Los Angeles ghetto. This lexicon was used to elicit and compare responses from 5 male groups of youths between 15 and 20 years old. Two of the groups consisted of lower class blacks separated geographically. The other groups were…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies, Disadvantaged Youth
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THE DATA PRESENTED IN THIS BOOK WERE GATHERED AS PART OF A PROJECT TO ANALYZE THE NON-STANDARD DIALECT OF ENGLISH SPOKEN BY NEGRO CHILDREN IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE ULTIMATE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE THE BASIC LINGUISTIC INFORMATION ESSENTIAL TO PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING STANDARD ENGLISH TO THESE CHILDREN. THE TAPE RECORDINGS USED IN THIS STUDY…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Community Centers, Dialect Studies
Fasold, Ralph W. – 1972
In recent years a considerable amount of interest has developed in language variability and in the educational problems connected with it. This volume is a report of linguistic research on the variable language behavior in a community of American English speakers, specifically on some aspects of tense marking in Black English. The following topics…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Studies, Dialect Studies, Grammar
