Persistence of Non-Standard Dialect in School-Age Children
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Vol. 39 (2), 434-441
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.3902.434
Abstract
This study investigated the persistence of non-standard dialect production among 114 African American and White children in grades 3, 5, and 7. A dialect shift premise suggests that a large and uniform decline in dialectal features occurs in the language of school-age children. Three experimental tasks were administered. The results indicated that dialect awareness and discrimination increased as grade in school increased; a dialect shift occurred between grades 3 and 5; non-standard dialect production and comprehension of standard dialect were not associated; and that there was no difference in non-standard dialect production among African American and White students.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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