This study examined the role of variety and frequency of dialectal features in relation to dialect awareness of African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) forms. Participant data was derived from oral and written language tasks examining sixty-eight third and fifth grade students’ dialect awareness in both oral and written modalities. Oral language samples were elicited with the Favorite Game or Sport task (Nippold, Hesketh, Duthie, & Mansfield, 2005) and were coded for morphological and phonological features of AAE. Descriptive statistics were reported to indicate the frequency and variety of dialectal features present in the children’s language samples. Frequency and variety of dialectal features were compared by examining student performance on an editing task to differentiate AAE and SAE forms in a written passage and on a repetition task derived from the DELV-S to determine accuracy of spoken SAE. By acknowledging previous research, it was predicted that both the frequency and variety of AAE features in oral language samples would significantly and positively correlate with the children’s performance on the editing and repetition task. Results indicated a significant positive relationship between frequency and variety of dialectal features, a significant negative relationship between dialect density and oral dialect awareness, and a significant positive relationship between dialect awareness in the oral and written modalities. These results are consistent with previous research that suggests a denser dialect results in poorer performance on tasks that require understanding of standard American English. / A Thesis submitted to the School of Communication Science and Disorders in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2018. / June 6, 2018. / African American English, Code-Switching, Dialect, Dialect Awareness / Includes bibliographical references. / Shannon Hall-Mills, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; Carla Wood, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; Toby MacRae, Committee Member; Hugh Catts, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_647198 |
| Contributors | Campbell, Denisha (author), Hall-Mills, Shannon S. (professor co-directing thesis), Wood, Carla (professor co-directing thesis), MacRae, Toby (committee member), Catts, Hugh W., 1949- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Communication and Information (degree granting college), School of Communication Science and Disorders (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (37 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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