Syntactic Elaboration in the Speech of Lower-Class Black Children [electronic resource] : A Review of the Evidence / Paul R. Ammon.

In this report, previous studies are reviewed in order to reconsider the assumption that lower class black children are generally deficient in their ability to produce syntactically elaborated speech. Though several studies have seemed to confirm the elaboration-deficiency hypothesis, the evidence p...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Ammon, Paul R.
Corporate Author:	University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Human Learning
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1971.
Subjects:	Black Students. Data Analysis. Dialects. Discourse Analysis. Language Patterns. Language Research. Language Styles. Lower Class Students. Research Methodology. Research Problems. Social Differences. Syntax.