TY - BOOK ID - 80825451 TI - Language and the African American child PY - 2011 SN - 9780511975561 9780521853095 9780521618175 9780511933479 0511933479 9780511928246 0511928246 0511975562 0521853095 0521618177 0511925735 9780511925733 0511853297 110721839X 1282930826 9786612930829 0511932111 0511930771 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Black English KW - English language KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Dialect literature, American KW - African American English KW - American black dialect KW - Ebonics KW - Negro-English dialects KW - African Americans KW - Phonology. KW - Dialects KW - Languages KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80825451 AB - How do children acquire African American English? How do they develop the specific language patterns of their communities? Drawing on spontaneous speech samples and data from structured elicitation tasks, this book explains the developmental trends in the children's language. It examines topics such as the development of tense/aspect marking, negation and question formation, and addresses the link between intonational patterns and meaning. Lisa Green shows the impact that community input has on children's development of variation in the production of certain constructions such as possessive -s, third person singular verbal -s, and forms of copula and auxiliary be. She discusses the implications that the linguistic description has for practical applications, such as developing instructional materials for children in the early stages of their education. ER -