Expressive and Receptive Language Effects of African American English on a Sentence Imitation Task

Autor/inn/en	Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L.
Titel	Expressive and Receptive Language Effects of African American English on a Sentence Imitation Task
Quelle	In: Topics in Language Disorders, 30 (2010) 2, S.119-134 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-8294
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Black Dialects; Markov Processes; Syntax; Imitation; Receptive Language; North American English; Language Tests; Language Research; Expressive Language; Monte Carlo Methods; Bayesian Statistics; Morphemes; Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Markowscher Prozess; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Amerikanisches Englisch; Language test; Sprachtest; Sprachforschung; Monte-Carlo-Methode; Morphem
Abstract	This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method was used to determine the relationship between the students' scores and the presence of third person singular "-s," a feature largely absent from AAE morphosyntax, in the subtest sentences. Even when given credit for AAE responses, the estimated effect of third person singular "-s" was significant, high relative to those of negation and counterfactual conditional "if" + "ed," and correlated with an independent measure of the students' rootedness in AAE syntax. It is argued that these results reveal a receptive language effect not addressed by crediting dialect productions. (As Provided).
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