Expressive and receptive language effects of African American English on a sentence imitation task
| Autor: | Richard Smith, Sandra C. Jackson, J. Michael Terry, Evangelos Evangelou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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African American English
Linguistics and Language Counterfactual conditional media_common.quotation_subject assessment American English dialect Syntax Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Speech and Hearing Negation Morpheme language sentence imitation Psychology Imitation North American English Sentence media_common morphosyntax |
| Zdroj: | Terry, J M, Jackson, S C, Evangelou, E & Smith, R L 2010, ' Expressive and receptive language effects of African American English on a sentence imitation task ', Topics in Language Disorders, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 119-134 . https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0b013e3181e04148 |
| Popis: | This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method was used to determine the relationship between the students' scores and the presence of third person singular -s, a feature largely absent from AAE morphosyntax, in the subtest sentences. Even when given credit for AAE responses, the estimated effect of third person singular -s was significant, high relative to those of negation and counterfactual conditional if + ed, and correlated with an independent measure of the students' rootedness in AAE syntax. It is argued that these results reveal a receptive language effect not addressed by crediting dialect productions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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