Students have a right to use the dialect and language of their own cultural heritage. Language and dialect rights have many advantages for the user, including prestige, self-confidence, group identity, opportunity to project personality and style, appreciation and respect of cultural heritage, and self-awareness. All dialects are equal and are…

Intended as a supplement to a standard text on English language history, this collection of 14 Old, 14 Middle, and 10 Early Modern English passages is designed to help the student understand for himself (through examination of concrete examples) the linguistic principles and conclusions discussed in texts and lectures. Suggestive questions are…

The linguistic atlas projects have provided much information on the regional distribution of pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax and have given important evidence for a greater understanding of problems involved in semantic change, particularly in pointing out transition areas where dialects become fused. In a study supplementary to that…

The articles presented in this study represent four of the seven Nahuatl dialects in which the Summer Institute of Linguistics workers are currently involved. Tentative conclusions from the dialect testing teams engaged in measuring degree of intelligibility between Nahuatl dialects suggest that almost a dozen mutually unintelligible Nahuatl areas…

The subject of this book is the development of written Estonian from its beginnings in the 13th century up to the last few decades. This work also attempts to bring out points not made in previous works and pays special attention throughout to the role of Finnish influence. Following the Introduction, chapters deal with the periods (1) from the…

The main purpose of this study is to fill a gap in the literature on the Mixtec language of Mexico by describing, systematically and completely, the grammar of the Jicaltepec dialect of the language. A subsidiary aim is that of collecting in one place and within a unified theoretical framework, phonological information about Mixtec that had…

Since no attempt had been made to determine classroom teachers' knowledge and understanding of the rules of Black English as identified by linguists, this study was designed to construct an appropriate instrument which could be administered to classroom teachers who want to work successfully with lower-class black children. Criterion-referencing…

This research was a series of experiments focused upon teachers' evaluations of videotaped samples of children's speech. The theoretical framework drew mainly from current ideas about dialect features and the associations with social stereotypes which they appear to prompt in listeners. The practical focus was how this process relates to teachers'…

This paper documents a coding system developed to facilitate the investigation of linguistic variation in Black English. The rationale for employment of such a system is given. The use of the coding system in a study of child Black English is described and the codes for 41 phonological and syntactic variables investigated in the study are…

Teaching of English is involved in the transmission of culture in two ways: (1) it is part of the complex process through which culture is transmitted; and (2) it can be a vehicle for the transmission of culture. The English teacher is faced with a combination of the two tasks of enculturation and acculturation. The effective teacher must clearly…

The need for teachers of English to accept speakers of nonstandard dialects of English is stressed. It is the responsibility of these teachers to help their students cope linguistically with all aspects of their lives. With linguistic insights and information and classroom expertise, teachers bring hope to the disadvantaged child. (CK)

THIS PAPER STATES THE COMMON GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND MENTIONS MINOR VARIATIONS FROM THE PATTERN, AS THEY EXIST IN THE SEPARATE LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES BOTH COMPONENTS OF SENTENCES AND THE ORDERING OF THESE COMPONENTS. THE BASIC KERNEL SENTENCES ARE LISTED WITH THE TYPES OF CONSTITUENTS OCCURRING IN THEM,…

Examines factors common to the various dialects of the French employed in Africa and demonstrates how these factors (1) determine the uniqueness of these dialects with relation to standard French, and (2) the resemblance of these dialects to African French-based Creoles. (AM)

Discusses Bernstein's "language deficit" theory ("restricted code" of the lower social class versus the "elaborated code" of upper-class speakers) and Labov's "language difference" theory. The former is rejected, and the latter is favored. Sociolinguistics should consider more than mere social-class language differences. (Text is in German.)…

The question of the origin of Catalan is considered from the historic, geographical, linguistic and textual viewpoints. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)