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Publication details [#2954]

Edwards, A.D. 1976. Speech codes and speech variants: Social class and task differences in children's speech. Journal of Child Language 3 (2) : 247–265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | language variety | social class | task-dependency of processing

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Report of an analysis of the speech of children in socially contrasted groups, across a range of communicative tasks. Class differences are shown to be less important than task variation.