PRESCHOOLERS;
AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH;
CULTURAL DIALECTS;
NORMAL LANGUAGE;
D O I:
10.1044/jshr.3704.816
中图分类号:
H [语言、文字];
学科分类号:
05 ;
摘要:
This study describes nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms used by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American boys and girls. Distributional analyses revealed three subgroups distinguished by the percentage frequencies of occurrence of utterances containing specific forms, and by the predominant types used by each group. Implications for characterizing the linguistic productions of young African American children are discussed.