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DIALECTS 229 other hand, is in perpetual motion even within a given group, which results in the rapid emergence and disappearanc ...

230 CHAPTER 7 Development of a Prestige Dialect All countries have prestige dialects, and, in most cases, sheer historical acci- ...

ity. People relocate more frequently today than ever before, and the result is an unprecedented blending of various dialects, es ...

Two factors may be responsible for the rapid changes Labov (1996) re- ported. One is that our urban centers have been magnets fo ...

Well, uhm, it’s like, you know, the Congress, like, you know, uhm, they meet, right? And, uhm, they talk about stuff, you know, ...

tend to be linked to the working-class poor.^5 Education, however, is not an abso- lute indicator of dialect. The language skill ...

Efforts to explain the drop in language skills have focused on two factors: the high number of hours per week that children watc ...

As far as I can determine, no study has examined the role, if any, that non- standard English among teachers plays in children’s ...

tures, such as irregular verb forms (Kay & Sankoff, 1974; Slobin, 1977). Function words like determiners (the, a, an) and pr ...

238 CHAPTER 7 significantly in this century. As a result, Papiamento continued to develop in its own way; it did not move closer ...

DIALECTS 239 The Place of BEV in our Schools During the 1960s, as a result of the Civil Rights Movement, we saw a signifi- cant ...

this book, but suffice it to say that postmodernism’s Marxist roots gave its ad- vocates an aggressive edge that most commonly f ...

to teach better, nor did it provide any reduction in the underlying tension be- tween home and school dialects. If anything, the ...

242 CHAPTER 7 ently, to be founded on a disturbingly racist point of view: There is the undeni- able—and unacceptable—hint that ...

DIALECTS 243 optional tense marking but requires that the action be marked as momentary or continuous. Aspect also allows speake ...

244 CHAPTER 7 Is you hungry? The same question concerning a long-term state, however, would be struc- tured as: Do you be hun ...

DIALECTS 245 What may be some factors, not mentioned in this chapter, that inhibit the ac- quisition and use of Standard Englis ...

ucation. The explosion of immigration from Mexico and Central America that began in 1985 altered this situation, but the level o ...

Spanish signifies third-person possession through prepositional phrases rather than possessive nouns, as in the following senten ...

Chicano English in the Classroom Very little research examines the influence of CE on academic performance. Castaneda and Ulanof ...