Black and white children, matched for social class and nonverbal intelligence, were tested on vocabulary words and sentences presented in black dialect and standard English. Both groups performed equally well on standard English sentences, but white children performed significantly poorer in black dialect sentences. (ST)

INTENDED FOR USE AFTER COMPLETION OF THE SPOKEN AYACUCHO COURSE, THIS VOLUME CONTAINS 19 PROSE SELECTIONS AND 11 PAGES OF VERSE AND LYRICS. THE STORIES WERE SELECTED TO ILLUSTRATE THE COMPLETE RANGE OF QUECHUA ORAL TRADITION IN THE AYACUCHO SPEECH AREA. INCLUDED ARE STORIES OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, TALES OF HUMAN FOLLY, ANIMAL STORIES, HUMOROUS…

Recent research has found that user performance varied as a function of dialect in a sentence production-type task. The present tense, singular-plural grammatical distinction marked by inflection was the distinction considered in the present study. A group of 30 white and 30 black, third-grade children were presented an array of 32…

There is little or no argument these days that Black English Vernacular (BEV) is a reality and that it is stigmatized. There is still a need, however, in spite of many studies of spoken varieties of BEV, for teachers to know what governs its occurrence in writing. This study concentrates on the written manifestation of BEV, on explaining which…

In order to gain a better view of the phonological properties of Taiwanese, examines how the rules of three dialects in the Taiwanese secret language operate. Describes the three main types of rules which are required to derive the secret language from the source language. Discusses implications of the study. (SED)

The study investigated whether Nonstandard English (NSE) dialect responses to an examiner-constructed sentence completion test were congruent with and predictive of use of NSE during spontaneous conversation. It was concluded that the sentence completion test is satisfactorily congruent with and predictive of patterns of dialect used in…

Presents a brief overview of the language situation in the Caribbean. Discusses language use and attitudes toward language varieties, the problems they engender for educators (both in the Caribbean and in Canada), as well as some ways of solving the problems. (EKN)

This study profiled phonological and morphosyntactic configurations of Appalachian English in the context of local and regional contact varieties, investigating the status of fronted /o/ and monopthong /ay for this variety and discussing such features as r-lessness, copula absence, plural -s absence on measure/count nouns, and a-prefixing. It…

Reports an investigation of the auditory discrimination ability of black and white listeners when listening to both black and white speakers. (TO)

Discusses the contributions of Louise Bennett in depicting Jamaican folklore. (MM)

Papiamentu is a Creole language spoken in Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire. (DS)

Article urges a positive attitude toward ghetto speech. (DM)