Grade-Related Changes in the Production of African American English

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 450-463

  Craig, Holly K ^a   Washington, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

African American English; Bidialectalism; Code switching; Dialect; Language

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CODING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; READING; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; URBAN POPULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 2142770235     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/036)     Document Type: Article

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