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Jeremiah, Milford A. – 1995
A study administered a 12-item questionnaire to 35 (15 males, 20 females) African-American students (recent high school graduates with a mean age of 17.5 years) enrolled in a university summer enrichment program to examine how their language in casual conversation differed from that of adults. The questionnaire was administered after the final…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Dialects, Black Students, Discourse Communities