Syntactic Elaboration in the Speech of Lower-Class Black and Middle-Class White Preschool Children [electronic resource] / Paul R. Ammon.

This study was designed to investigate the assumption that young, lower-class black children have language deficits based on the use of a restricted (as opposed to an elaborated) syntactic code. The speech of 69 black, lower-class and 30 white, middle-class 4 1/2-year olds was compared. Speech sampl...

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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, 1973.
Subjects:	Blacks. Disadvantaged Youth. Language Acquisition. Language Handicaps. Lower Class. Middle Class. Preschool Children. Psycholinguistics. Syntax. Whites.