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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Bidialectal"”.
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Influence of Examiner Dialect on a Bidialectal Speaker with Aphasia
… quantity and quality of narrative discourse in a bidialectal African American with mild aphasia. We hypothesized that there may be a cognitive cost when responding to the examiner by code switching from African American English (AAE) to General American English (GAE) for bidialectal people with …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… The purpose of this study was to determine if bidialectal children who speak African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE) are at that same risk. We hypothesized that bidialectal children would speak with a greater frequency and variety of speech disfluencies in their …
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School-based writing in bidialectal settings and the challenges facing immigrant pupils
… The latter are immigrant pupils immersed in bidialectal communities, that is, communities where communication is performed through a standard and a non-standard variety of language. These pupils are confronted with the comparatively greater challenge of operating in the second dialect of a …
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Capitalising on linguistic diversity via a bidialectal intervention programme to improve linguistic performance and sociolinguistic awareness in two proximal varieties
… in education. In fact, long-standing research on bidialectal models of instruction which use the dialectal native variety in tandem with the standard language has shown that linguistic diversity, when recognised, respected and promoted, can improve students’ scholarly performance dramatically, …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… 1</b> investigated whether bidialectal speakers exhibit similar benefits in nonlinguistic inhibitory control as a result of the maintenance and use of two dialects, as has been proposed for bilinguals who regularly employ inhibitory control mechanisms, in order to suppress …
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The structure and functions of codeswitching between standard Arabic and dialectal Arabic
… (DA) is a characteristic feature of Arabic bidialectal speech in a number of contexts. This dissertation focuses on two aspects related to this phenomenon, namely, its syntactic structure and its social functions in Arabic-speaking communities. The purpose of this study was three-fold: …