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| Language Sciences | 2 |
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| Houston, Susan H. | 1 |
| Mehan, Hugh | 1 |
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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 reviewedMehan, Hugh – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Background, Information Theory, Interaction
