This study investigated the phonological and grammatical characteristics of Black American English Dialect, and the congruence between three popular assessment procedures: spontaneous discourse, elicited imitation and sentence completion. Codeswitching was also observed using a researcher designed sentence completion task and a uniform narrative sample. 10 black male and 10 black female 5th grade subjects were from three predominantly black elementary schools in two North Florida Counties were used. Nineteen (10 phonological and 9 grammatical) constructions were observed on all tasks throughout this investigation. The results of this investigation suggest that while some of the elements of BAD reported in previous literature still persist, others did not occur frequently enough or were too subject specific (even when the opportunity for them to occur was high) to be considered characteristic of the speech/language pattern of an entire culture or community. It was also found that males used more BAED constructions than females on all tasks, and that difference was statistically significant. This investigation also suggests that there is some level of congruence between the subjects' performances on spontaneous discourse, elicited imitation and sentence completion tasks. These subjects performed comparably on all three tasks. This congruency, was found to be highly variable and specific to certain phonological and grammatical constructions. Possible reasons for the apparent change in the characteristics of BAED, the variability in the results in congruence and their implications for future research are offered. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: B, page: 3430. / Major Professor: Virginia Walker. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78057 |
| Contributors | Bailey, Larry Jerome., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 163 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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