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Dialect Variation and Phonological Knowledge: Phonological Representations and Metalinguistic Awareness among Beginning Readers who Speak Nonmainstream American English
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Terry, Nicole Patton – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
Children's spoken nonmainstream American English (NMAE) dialect use and their knowledge about phonological representations of word pronunciations were assessed in a sample of 105 children in kindergarten through second grade. Children were given expressive and receptive tasks with dialect-sensitive stimuli. Students who produced many NMAE…
Descriptors: Phonology, Nonstandard Dialects, North American English, Metalinguistics
Answering Hard Questions: "Wh"-Movement across Dialects and Disorder
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De Villiers, Jill; Roeper, Thomas; Bland-Stewart, Linda; Pearson, Barbara – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
A large-scale study of complex "wh"-questions with 1,000 subjects aged 4-9 years is reported. The subjects' dialects were Mainstream American English or African American English, and approximately one-third were language impaired. The study examined when children permit long distance "wh"-movement, and when they respect a variety of syntactic…
Descriptors: North American English, Dialects, Linguistic Performance, Language Impairments
Effects of Bilingualism, Noise, and Reverberation on Speech Perception by Listeners with Normal Hearing
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Rogers, Catherine L.; Lister, Jennifer J.; Febo, Dashielle M.; Besing, Joan M.; Abrams, Harvey B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
This study compared monosyllabic word recognition in quiet, noise, and noise with reverberation for 15 monolingual American English speakers and 12 Spanish-English bilinguals who had learned English prior to 6 years of age and spoke English without a noticeable foreign accent. Significantly poorer word recognition scores were obtained for the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Acoustics, Speech
Open Class and Closed Class: Sentence-Imitation Experiments on Intrasentential Code-Switching.
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Azuma, Shoji; Meier, Richard P. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Argues that a pattern analogous to that in speech errors also appears in intrasentential code-switching, i.e., the alternating use of two languages in a sentence by bilinguals. Notes that studies of spontaneous conversation of bilinguals indicate that open class items may be code-switched, but closed class items may not. (41 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
Babbling of Twins in a Bilingual Environment.
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Zlatic, Larisa; Macneilage, Peter; Matyear, Christine L.; Davis, Barbara L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examines the phonetic characteristics of babbling by a pair of fraternal twins raised in a bilingual environment (English/Serbian). The study focused on the basic articulatory form of babbling, the impact of twinship on babbling patterns, and whether effects specific to one or another of the ambient languages could be observed. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Family Environment
Sonority as a Constraint on Word Identification Processes.
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Christman, Sarah S.; DePaolis, Rory A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Explores the role of sonority in constraining the word identification errors of normal listeners by examining the phonological relationships between response errors and stimulus targets. Findings indicate that sonority and lexical phonostatistics may constrain coda-driven word-search processes. (35 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing