Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Measures of Tense and Agreement With Dialect-Informed Probes and Strategic Scoring.

Purpose: In African American English and Southern White English, we examined whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) overtly mark tense and agreement structures at lower percentages than typically developing (TD) controls, while also examining the effects of dialect, structure, and...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 62; no. 9; pp. 3443 - 3462
Main Authors:	Oetting, Janna B., Berry, Jessica R., Gregory, Kyomi D., Rivière, Andrew M., McDonald, Janet
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Sep2019
Subjects:	Southern States United States Black English Language disorders Language & languages Linguistics Comparative grammar Dialects White people Children English dialects Tense (Grammar) Research funding Medical coding
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