Assessing Language in Children Who Speak A Nonmainstream Dialect of English

Clinical Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 180-192

  Oetting, Janna B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect; Nonmainstream pattern; Normative data; Sample analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955115031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470754856.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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