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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Phonetic Inventories and Phonological Patterns of African American Two-Year-Olds: A Preliminary Investigation.
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Bland-Stewart, Linda M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2003
A study investigated phonological skills of 8 African American English (AAE)-speaking 2-year-olds. They acquired and used the same phonemes and phonological processes as described in the literature for both AAE-speaking toddlers and toddlers speaking Standard American English. Results could not distinguish typical phonological development from…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences
"A Matter of Vocabulary": Performances of Low-Income African American Head Start Children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--III.
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Champion, Tempii B.; Hyter, Yvette D.; McCabe, Allyssa; Bland-Stewart, Linda M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2003
Forty-nine African American children (ages 3-5) enrolled in Head Start were assessed using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Their mean score was significantly lower than the mean for the normative sample. Few items were systematically missed; instead, performance seemed reflective of socioeconomic and/or ethnic patterns of vocabulary usage.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Use of Brown's 14 Grammatical Morphemes by Bilingual Hispanic Preschoolers: A Pilot Study.
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Bland-Stewart, Linda M.; Fitzgerald, Suzette M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2001
This pilot study investigated Standard American English (SAE) morphological development for 15 bilingual Hispanic preschoolers. Analysis of data from spontaneous language samples revealed emergent use of Brown's (1973) 14 grammatical morphemes. Because mastery generally was later than for SAE speakers, clinicians are urged to use caution when…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Hispanic Americans, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency