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Dialect Variation of Copula and Auxiliary Verb BE: African American English-Speaking Children With and Without Gullah/Geechee Heritage.

Purpose: We compared copula and auxiliary verb BE use by African American English-speaking children with and without a creole heritage, using Gullah/Geechee as the creole criterion, to determine if differences exist, the nature of the differences, and the impact of the differences on interpretations...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 2557 - 2569
Main Authors: Berry, Jessica R., Oetting, Janna B.
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Sep2017
Subjects:
United States
South Carolina
Black English
African American children
Language & culture
Language & languages
Analysis of variance
Dialects
Dialect research
Copula (Grammar)
English verbs
Sea Islands Creole dialect
English language ability testing
T-test (Statistics)
Research funding
Descriptive statistics
Data analysis software
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