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Language and the African American child /

"How do children acquire African American English? How do they develop the specific language patterns of their communities? Drawing on spontaneous speech samples and data from structured elicitation tasks, this book explains the developmental trends in the children's language. It examines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Lisa J., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context
  • Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, patterns and systems
  • System of tense-aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual
  • System of tense-aspect marking 2: past time
  • Negation: focus on negative concord
  • Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration
  • Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting
  • The D.I.R.E.C.T. model: linking linguistic description and education.