Syntactic Elaboration in the Speech of Lower-Class Black Children: A Review of the Evidence

Syntactic Elaboration in the Speech of Lower-Class Black Children: A Review of the Evidence

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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1. Verfasser: Ammon, Paul R
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Sprache:eng
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Black Students
Data Analysis
Dialects
Discourse Analysis
Language Patterns
Language Research
Language Styles
Lower Class Students
Research Methodology
Research Problems
Social Differences
Syntax
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Zusammenfassung: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 presented is not convincing. Specific critiques of previous studies were that they: (1) confounded elaboration with dialect differences; (2) were not sufficiently sensitive to the content and context of sentences; (3) involved questionable decisions as to the elaborateness of syntactic forms; and, (4) were generally too gross to permit adequate interpretation of data. (Author/DM)