Children's comprehension of standard and Black English sentences. Frentz, T. S. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, 1970. Paper abstract bibtex Recent research has found that user performance varied as a function of dialect in a sentence production-type task. The present tense, singular-plural grammatical distinction marked by inflection was the distinction considered in the present study. A group of 30 white and 30 black, third-grade children were presented an array of 32 sentence-picture combinations. The sentences varied between standard and black English and between singular and plural, while the pictures varied between singular and plural. The Ss saw a picture projected on a screen and then heard a sentence through earphones. A S's task was to press either a "means same" or a "means different" button depending upon whether the sentence and picture had similar or different grammatical markings. Results included: (1) No significant race by dialect interaction was found; (2) Combined S performance with black English sentences did not differ significantly from such performance with standard English sentences; (3) White children performed significantly better than black children in terms of the correctness of response measure only in singular sentence conditions; (4) Plural sentence/plural picture combinations required shorter response latencies than any other sentence-picture combinations.
@phdthesis{frentz_childrens_1970,
address = {Madison, WI},
type = {Ph.{D}. {Dissertation}},
title = {Children's comprehension of standard and {Black} {English} sentences},
url = {https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED056050},
abstract = {Recent research has found that user performance varied as a function of dialect in a sentence production-type task. The present tense, singular-plural grammatical distinction marked by inflection was the distinction considered in the present study. A group of 30 white and 30 black, third-grade children were presented an array of 32 sentence-picture combinations. The sentences varied between standard and black English and between singular and plural, while the pictures varied between singular and plural. The Ss saw a picture projected on a screen and then heard a sentence through earphones. A S's task was to press either a "means same" or a "means different" button depending upon whether the sentence and picture had similar or different grammatical markings. Results included: (1) No significant race by dialect interaction was found; (2) Combined S performance with black English sentences did not differ significantly from such performance with standard English sentences; (3) White children performed significantly better than black children in terms of the correctness of response measure only in singular sentence conditions; (4) Plural sentence/plural picture combinations required shorter response latencies than any other sentence-picture combinations.},
school = {University of Wisconsin Madison},
author = {Frentz, Thomas Stanley},
year = {1970},
}
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