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Publication details [#1297]
Berdan, Robert. 1977. Polylectal comprehension and the polylectal grammar. In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 12–29.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
On the claims (i) that because children from ethnic minorities can hear, translate and repeat Standard English sentences, educational problems of the children cannot be accounted for by language differences; and (ii) that speakers exposed to more than one 'lect' have polylectal comprehension, and thus polylectal grammars.