Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Author explains the significance of a survey of student language, and gives a sample Checklist of School Language". (SP)

This study compared the ability of Southern urban higher status white and lower status white and black four-year-olds to imitate, comprehend, and produce selected standard English grammatical structures. The higher status white group performed better than either of the lower ones. Possible effects of dialect differences on the results is…

Discusses results of a questionnaire survey on the use of dialect words by older adults in Canada's Prince Edward Island. (HTH)

Describes differences between colloquial and literary pronunciation of Hainan. (AM)

This article gives a preliminary analysis of the "Survey of Canadian English," which was conducted across Canada in 1972. The article deals with various problems with a view to facilitating a more exhaustive evaluation of the data stored at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. (Text is in German.) (Author/CFM)

A study of syntactic variables now undergoing change in a predominantly black community in coastal South Carolina. (DD)

The applicability of the notion of "speech community" in urban centers where considerable dialect mixing takes place is discussed. Labov's model is examined and four speech community criteria are emphasized: nativeness of speech community members, uniform patterns of linguistic variation, shared evaluation of features, and close…

Aims to contribute new data on verbal "-s" by systematically examining its behavior in Devon English (DE), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of verbal "-s" in nonstandard varieties of English in North America. (Author/VWL)

Dorsopalatal contact and F2 data for speakers of dialectal groups with dark [l] (Majorcan Catalan, Eastern Catalan) and clear [l] (German, Catalan from the Valencia region) provide some support for the hypothesis that degree of velarization or pharyngealization in the alveolar lateral consonant does not proceed categorically but gradually across…

This document shares Dr. Walt Wolfram's views on African-American Dialect. He states that the most elementary principle is that all language is patterned and rule-governed, and one can apply that principle to African-American English, Appalachian English, and to every other dialect that is examined.

This paper renews the call for greater interest in applied work to deal with the obstacles faced in formal education by speakers of creoles (such as Hawaii Creole and Jamaican Creole) and minority dialects (such as African American English). It starts off with an update on developments in the use of these vernacular languages in educational…