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Negro Children's Speech : Some Social Class Differences in Word Predictability

Author(s) -

Frederick Williams,

Barbara Sundene Wood

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097001300301

Subject(s) - middle class , class (philosophy) , predictability , psychology , social class , word (group theory) , linguistics , mathematics education , mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , political science , statistics , philosophy , law

Language samples of junior high school aged Negro girls of low and middle socio-economic classes were subjected to word predictability procedures undertaken by additional students from the same two populations. Results indicated that the middle class students could readily approximate the language of the middle and low class samples, but the lower class students did significantly more poorly in approximating the language of the middle class students, although they performed as well as the middle class students in approximating language in samples from students of their same social status.

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