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Edited by Elena Babatsouli
[Studies in Bilingualism 67] 2024
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Chapter 4Approaching Developmental Language Disorder from a Disorder within Dialects framework
A focus on dialect-informed terms, materials, and strategic scoring
Disorder within Dialects is a new framework that has helped guide a series of studies on childhood Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) within African American English (AAE) and Southern White American English (SWAE), two dialects spoken in the southern region of the United States. In this chapter, I review the basic tenets of the Disorder with Dialects framework, contrasting it with the traditional Dialect vs. Disorder framework. Then, focusing on children’s use of finite markers within AAE and SWAE and using data from several published studies, I demonstrate how dialect-informed materials and strategic scoring systems can be used to identify children with DLD within these dialects and perhaps within other linguistic varieties spoken in the United States and elsewhere.
Keywords: African American English, Southern White English, Developmental Language Disorder, grammar
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The disorder within dialects framework
- 2.1Naming practices
- 2.2Linguistic structure and forms
- 2.3Developmental change and individual differences
- 3.An initial study of childhood DLD within AAE and SWAE
- 4.Five-year investigation of finite forms by children with DLD within AAE and SWAE
- 4.1Sentence recall (Oetting et al., 2016b)
- 4.2Elicitation probes (Oetting et al., 2019)
- 4.3Language samples (Oetting et al., 2021)
- 4.4Comparison of strategic scoring to other scoring systems
- 5.Conclusions and directions for future studies
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Notes -
References -
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