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Direct linkOetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L.; Seidel, Christy M.; Hegarty, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The inability to accurately recall sentences has proven to be a clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI); this task yields moderate-to-high levels of sensitivity and specificity. However, it is not yet known if these results hold for speakers of dialects whose nonmainstream grammatical productions overlap with those that are…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Sentences, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments
Aponte, Irene A. – 1985
A study of the relationship between patterns of use of the verb "to be" and reading comprehension had as subjects 103 college freshmen in a developmental program, including 53 black and 50 white students. The students' use of Black English constructions of the verb on a writing skills test and their errors in response to a reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
