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Dugan, James Timothy – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study describes the grammar of the Ch'orti' Maya language as it appears in a collection of oral literature. I collected the stories that form the basis of this study in and around Jocotan, Guatemala, during 2004 and 2005. I worked with bilingual story-tellers to make audio recordings of the original Ch'orti'-language tales, produce textual…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Grammar, Oral Language, Literature
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Camden, Carl; And Others – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1985
Measured high school students' use of Black American English (BAE) via three different data collection techniques: actual conversation, conversation simulations, and self-report questionnaires. Found significant differences in BAE usage according to type of data collection technique used. (PD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Communication Research, Data Collection