Language and the African American child [electronic resource] / 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, Lisa J., 1963-
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Black English > Phonology. English language > Dialects > United States. Sociolinguistics > United States.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

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.