Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Note on the text
- 1 Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context
- 2 Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, and patterns and systems
- 3 System of tense–aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual
- 4 System of tense–aspect marking 2: past time
- 5 Negation: focus on negative concord
- 6 Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration
- 7 Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting
- 8 The D.I.R.E.C.T. Model: linking linguistic description and education
- Appendix A: List of participants
- Appendix B
- Notes
- References
- Index
1 - Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Note on the text
- 1 Child AAE: an introductory overview of the data and context
- 2 Characterizing AAE: feature lists, dual components, and patterns and systems
- 3 System of tense–aspect marking 1: non-past and habitual
- 4 System of tense–aspect marking 2: past time
- 5 Negation: focus on negative concord
- 6 Asking questions: seeking clarification and requesting elaboration
- 7 Variation: intra-dialectal/variable-shifting and inter-dialectal/code-shifting
- 8 The D.I.R.E.C.T. Model: linking linguistic description and education
- Appendix A: List of participants
- Appendix B
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
LJG: Now I’m gonna read a story and you are gonna have to tell it back to me. You think you can do it?
Dawn: Yes mam.
LJG: I know you can. You can do everything.
Dawn: I’m smart.
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- Language and the African American Child , pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010