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Autor/inn/en | Oetting, Janna B.; Newkirk, Brandi L. |
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Titel | Children's Relative Clause Markers in Two Non-Mainstream Dialects of English |
Quelle | In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25 (2011) 8, S.725-740 (16 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0269-9206 |
DOI | 10.3109/02699206.2011.553700 |
Schlagwörter | Black Dialects; Nouns; Linguistics; North American English; Child Language; Phrase Structure; Language Acquisition; Language Usage; Whites; Young Children |
Abstract | We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. "that", "who", "which", "what", "where", [image omitted]) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker, humanness of the antecedent and adjacency of the noun phrase head). The data were language samples from 99 typically developing 4-6-year-olds: 61 spoke AAE and 38 spoke SWE. The majority of the children's relative clauses included mainstream markers. Non-mainstream markers were rare, with 3-6% involving [image omitted] subjects and 2% involving "what". The children produced who exclusively as subjects and with human antecedents, "where" exclusively as locatives and with non-human antecedents and [image omitted] and "what" primarily as direct objects or objects of prepositions and with non-human antecedents. Although AAE- and SWE-speaking children produce some non-mainstream relative markers, the majority of their markers are mainstream. Their use of relative markers is also influenced by linguistic variables in ways that are consistent with a wide range of mainstream and non-mainstream English dialects. These findings show across-dialect similarity in children's relative clauses, even though characterisation of relative clauses as a contrastive dialect structure remains justified. (Contains 4 tables and 3 notes.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |