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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.

Black English --- English language --- Sociolinguistics --- Dialect literature, American --- African American English --- American black dialect --- Ebonics --- Negro-English dialects --- African Americans --- Phonology. --- Dialects --- Languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Germanic languages

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Literacy --- Black English --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- Barbershops --- Popular culture --- English language --- American literature --- African American English --- American black dialect --- Ebonics --- Negro-English dialects --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Barber shops --- Service industries --- Communication. --- Rhetoric. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Languages. --- Languages --- Germanic languages