An investigation of non-standard english syntax in 12-year old coloured children
South African Journal of Communication Disorders
| Field | Value | |
| Title | An investigation of non-standard english syntax in 12-year old coloured children | |
| Creator | Malan, Karen C. | |
| Description | Non-standard English (NSE) syntactic constructions occurring in the natural speech, behaviour of a group of 20 12-year old Coloured children were identified and analysed. Three syntactic classes were isolated as having contained NSE constructions used significantly by the group: auxiliary/copula verb forms, number-verb agreement and tense. A bi-dialectal sentence repetition task was then adminstered to the same group and to a matched group of White children, in which the two groups were compared on their ability to reproduce sentences containing (1) NSE constructions used significantly by the Coloured group, and (2) the standard English (SE) forms of these constructions. Results indicated that while Coloured Ss were able to reproduce many of the SE constructions, their overall performance on these items was significantly inferior to that of White Ss. Conversely, their repetition of NSE items was significantly superior to that of White Ss. The implications of these findings for the clinical language assessment of Coloured children were discussed. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1981-11-11 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajcd.v28i1.354 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Communication Disorders; Vol 28, No 1 (1981); 68–80 2225-4765 0379-8046 | |
| Language | eng | |
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