Differentiating dialect from disorder: A comparison of two processing tasks and a standardized language test

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 255-272

  Rodekohr, Rachel K ^a   Haynes, William O ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American English; Culturally unbiased language assessment; Dialect; Processing tasks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONEME; SPEECH; STIMULUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SPEECH DISORDERS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0035009479     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9924(01)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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