Language and the African American child / Lisa J. Green.

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"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 topics suc...

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Main Author: Green, Lisa J., 1963-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010, ©2011.
Subjects:
Black English > Phonology.
English language > Dialects > United States.
Sociolinguistics > United States.
Local Note:
MSU: This book was selected in recognition of MSU Libraries Student Employee, Lauren Ritzler, Class of 2011.
Physical Description:xxiii, 260 pages igures, tables.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context; 2. Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, patterns and systems; 3. System of tense-aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual; 4. System of tense-aspect marking 2: past time; 5. Negation: focus on negative concord; 6. Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration; 7. Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting; 8. The D.I.R.E.C.T. model: linking linguistic description and education.