Variable use of African American English across two language sampling contexts

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1115-1124

  Washington, Julie A ^a   Craig, Holly K ^b   Kushmaul, Amy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

African American English; African Americans; Children; Contextual variation; Language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NEGRO; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0031704925     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4105.1115     Document Type: Article

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