African American English dialect and performance on nonword spelling and phonemic awareness tasks

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-160

  Kohler, Candida T ^a   Bahr, Ruth Huntley ^a   Silliman, Elaine R ^a   Bryant, Judith Becker ^a   Apel, Kenn ^b   Wilkinson, Louise C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American English; Dialect; Nonword spelling; Phonological processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249714716     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2007/020)     Document Type: Article

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