Evidence for a minimal competence core of consonant sounds in the speech of African American children: a preliminary study.
Most studies have stressed those aspects of African American English (AAE) that differ from Standard English (SE) varieties. Therefore word- final consonant performance has been investigated most often. In contrast, this intensive study aimed to reveal whether a common core of initial consonants is...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 20; no. 10; pp. 723 - 750 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2006
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