LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT IN WORKING-CLASS BLACK CHILDREN

工薪阶层黑人儿童的词汇发展

• 批准号: 6204071
• 负责人: ANNA F VAUGHN-COOKE
• 金额: $ 13.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6204071
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; clinical research; computer data analysis; data collection; human subject; language development; longitudinal human study; middle childhood (6-11); preschool child (1-5); semantics; videotape /videodisc

The general goal of the research is to study the acquisition and development of distinctive semantic-syntactic structures in African American English. The 18 month, longitudinal investigation will focus on two types of structures, go copula and invariant be, in the language of twelve working-class African American children, representing both genders and two age groups: 3.0 to 4.6 and 4.6 to 6.0. The key aims of the study are to: (1) determine the meaning of go copula and invariant be in the children's language; (2) describe changes that occur over time in go copula and invariant be syntactic constructions; and (3) determine the frequency of occurrence of go copula and invariant be in the language samples. The long-term objective of the research is to expand language development research on African American children. A practical goal is to utilize results from the study to improve language assessment and intervention for these children in health-related fields, e.g., speech and language pathology, child development and special education.

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