African American and Caucasian preschoolers' use of decontextualized language: Literate language features in oral narratives

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 240-253

  Curenton, Stephanie M ^a,c   Justice, Laura M ^b  

^a Soc for Res in Child Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy; Literate language; Narration; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242696062     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2004/023)     Document Type: Article

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