Evaluating the Grammars of Children Who Speak Nonmainstream Dialects of English.

Investigating the influence of virtual peers as dialect models on students' prosodic inventory

Children who speak non-standard dialects of English show reduced performance not just in language-oriented topics in school but also in math and science. Technological solutions have been rare exactly because of the nonmainstream nature of their talk, and hence the difficulty in automatically recognizing their speech and responding to it with, for example, computer tutors. In order to work towa...

Index of productive syntax for children who speak African American English.

PURPOSE The validity of the Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn; Scarborough, 1990) for children who speak African American English (AAE) was evaluated by conducting an item analysis and a comparison of the children's scores as a function of their maternal education level, nonmainstream dialect density, age, and clinical status. METHOD The data were language samples from 62 children; 52 of the ...

Diachronic Change from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition: A Study of the Word Order of Wh-questions in Present-day Norwegian Dialects

In this paper I investigate some child and adult data from an acquisition corpus of spontaneous conversation of some North Norwegian (NN) dialects, focusing on the word order of wh-questions. As is well known, many dialects do not have a strict V2 requirement in this clause type, and this is often interpreted as a process of diachronic change in the direction of non-V2 (e.g. Vangsnes 2004, West...

Students and professionals who speak English with accents and nonstandard dialects: issues and recommendations. ASHA Joint Subcommittee of the Executive Board on English Language Proficiency.

Acquisition of Tense by Persian and English Speaking Children Between 2 to 4 Years Aged

This research is case study which was designed to investigate the acquisition of tense by Persian and English speaking children between 2to4 years aged. Four girls were precisely analyzed in order to figure how the tense of verbs is effective in their speaking that learners need to succeed in their daily lives. The subjects were randomly selected to study and the matter of gender was not consid...