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Freedle, Roy O., Ed. – 1977
An understanding of the structure and function of discourse in social communication and in its internal representation to the individuals is sought in this multidisciplinary collection of papers. The approaches are divided into theoretical orientations and empirical orientations. The theoretical papers deal with: (1) comprehension in conversation,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis
Levine, Madlyn A.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship between dialect usage and performance on four language tasks designed to reflect features developmental in nature: articulation, grammatical closure, auditory discrimination, and sentence comprehension. Predictor and criterion language tasks were administered to 90 kindergarten, first-, and second-grade…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education