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A Comparative Study of Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and Black English Sentence Scoring (BESS) in AAE Language Sample Analysis. 发展性句子评分与黑人英语句子评分在AAE语言样本分析中的比较研究。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1055/a-2709-6424

Platrina Shadon Alexander, Carly Rosvold, José A Ortiz, Eliza Akua Thompson, Nan Bernstein Ratner

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Informal and Formal Assessment of Child AAE (C). 儿童AAE非正式和正式评估(C)。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1814446

Julie A Washington

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Correction: Recognizing the Complexity and Richness of African American English (AAE) as Literate Language. 认识到非裔美国人英语（AAE）作为文学语言的复杂性和丰富性。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1055/a-2775-6912

RaMonda Horton, Kimberline G Clark

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Examining How SLPs Rate the Written Narratives of Black Second Graders: A Mixed Methods Study. 考察slp如何评价黑人二年级学生的书面叙述：一项混合方法研究。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1055/a-2725-9654

Denisha Campbell, Lakeisha Johnson

{"title":"Examining How SLPs Rate the Written Narratives of Black Second Graders: A Mixed Methods Study.","authors":"Denisha Campbell, Lakeisha Johnson","doi":"10.1055/a-2725-9654","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2725-9654","url":null,"abstract":"Speech language pathologists (SLPs) are charged with providing equitable, clinically competent services for all individuals, regardless of their cultural or linguistic background. One practice known to be culturally fair is the use of narrative assessments. However, given the persistent emphasis on \"standard\" English in written communication, it is critical to examine how SLPs perceive and evaluate the writing of students who use diverse linguistic variations.In this mixed methods study, 42 Black and White SLPs rated the written narratives (one fictional, one personal) of two second-grade Black students who used African American English (AAE) and general American English (GAE). SLPs provided explanations detailing their rationale for their ratings.Findings indicated that there were no significant race-based differences for ratings. Fictional narratives were rated more favorably than personal narratives, and narratives written by the GAE speaker were rated more favorably than the AAE speaker. Qualitative analyses supported these findings as justifications largely involved grammar, followed by punctuation and writing conventions.These findings highlight the potential influence of pervasive language ideologies that favor features of GAE among SLPs. SLPs' justifications focused on components of macrostructure and microstructure, with an emphasis on microstructure (e.g., grammar and punctuation), suggesting that SLPs prioritize \"correctness\" over content.","PeriodicalId":48772,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in Speech and Language","volume":" ","pages":"337-360"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Caregiver-Child Interactions: Utilizing an Ecobehavioral Model to Investigate the Effect of Activity Contexts on African American English Use. 照料者-儿童互动：利用生态行为模型研究活动情境对非裔美国人英语使用的影响。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1055/a-2796-3785

Karina Saechao, Meghan Matuszeski, Yo Jackson, Claire Selin

{"title":"Caregiver-Child Interactions: Utilizing an Ecobehavioral Model to Investigate the Effect of Activity Contexts on African American English Use.","authors":"Karina Saechao, Meghan Matuszeski, Yo Jackson, Claire Selin","doi":"10.1055/a-2796-3785","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2796-3785","url":null,"abstract":"Within an ecobehavioral framework, proximal (e.g., activity context) and distal factors (e.g., public policies) may influence how children and caregivers use African American English (AAE) features. Although prior research has considered isolated factors, considering how these ecological factors interact will improve understanding of the complexity surrounding AAE feature use within caregiver-child interactions.Thirty language samples were transcribed and coded for AAE features from 5-year-olds and their caregiver during a play task. Mixed effects models were estimated to investigate whether speaker (i.e., caregiver, child), activity context (i.e., reading, free play), and language dynamics (e.g., previous AAE use) predicted AAE feature use.The baseline probability of AAE feature use in an utterance was 5.73%, and the probability of AAE feature use: (1) increased when the previous utterance included an AAE feature and was spoken by the same speaker or the speaker changed from child to caregiver, and (2) decreased for the caregiver during the book reading activity.The results of this study suggest that language dynamics within the caregiver-child interaction influence AAE use. Further, caregivers appeared to \"suppress\" their use of AAE features during the book reading task, reflecting a shift from using more idealized AAE in free play to more idealized Mainstream American English based on activity context.","PeriodicalId":48772,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in Speech and Language","volume":"46 3","pages":"213-231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13078851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147436772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Using Dialect Discovery Worksheets to Learn About Children's Linguistic Strengths and Weaknesses. 使用方言发现工作表了解儿童的语言优势和劣势。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1055/a-2624-3821

Christy Wynn Moland, Janna B Oetting

{"title":"Using Dialect Discovery Worksheets to Learn About Children's Linguistic Strengths and Weaknesses.","authors":"Christy Wynn Moland, Janna B Oetting","doi":"10.1055/a-2624-3821","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2624-3821","url":null,"abstract":"Dialect discovery worksheets focus on children's dialect-appropriate form productivity and sensitivity to linguistic context within a dialect. Focusing on tense and agreement (T/A) forms in African American English (AAE), we demonstrate how these worksheets can be used to reveal grammar strengths in children with typical development (TD) and grammar weaknesses in those with developmental language disorder (DLD).The participants were four kindergartners who spoke AAE (two males and two females; two DLD; two TD). The data were archival and came from an elicitation task. Using the worksheets, we categorized and quantified the participant's T/A dialect-general overt forms, dialect-specific overt forms, and zero forms by linguistic context.The TD participants demonstrated form productivity, producing significant numbers of T/A dialect-general overt, dialect-specific overt, and zero forms. They also varied their overt forms and zero forms in ways that demonstrated sensitivity to linguistic context. Those with DLD did not demonstrate form productivity, and they lacked variation in form use by linguistic context.Dialect discovery worksheets provide useful information about children's grammar systems within the context of their dialect(s). These worksheets should be considered for clinical practice and preprofessional student training.","PeriodicalId":48772,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in Speech and Language","volume":" ","pages":"182-196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13213698/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What of It? Coding the Unmarked Of-Preposition in Language Samples from Young AAE Speakers. 那又怎样？青年AAE语言样本中介词未标记的编码

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1055/a-2662-8184

Denise A Finneran, Maura J Moyle, Alaina Nash, Sixia Chen

{"title":"What of It? Coding the Unmarked Of-Preposition in Language Samples from Young AAE Speakers.","authors":"Denise A Finneran, Maura J Moyle, Alaina Nash, Sixia Chen","doi":"10.1055/a-2662-8184","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2662-8184","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the of-preposition in language samples because it is a highly variable feature that can be marked or unmarked (e.g., \"out [of] the door\") depending on context. Children who speak African American English (AAE) produce unmarked of-prepositions in contexts that are universal across AAE and General American English (GAE; e.g., \"out [of] the window\") and in contexts specific to the AAE dialect (e.g., \"out [of] the car\"). Guidance in the literature on this variability is limited for language sample analysis. Participants included 113 children who spoke AAE. We examined contexts with unmarked of-prepositions in narrative language samples in a subset of 72 children (mean age = 53.57 months). Samples were coded for AAE features based on the published literature. Contexts with an unmarked of-preposition were coded as universal (present in AAE and GAE) or as a feature of AAE. We calculated an estimate of AAE feature use in two ways: one that erroneously assumed that all of-preposition variability (including universal) is AAE, and one that more precisely identified AAE features. Analyses revealed significant differences in the measurement of AAE use. Careful analysis of dialect-specific and universal features of AAE grammar, including the of-preposition, is needed for reliable assessments.","PeriodicalId":48772,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in Speech and Language","volume":" ","pages":"197-212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144975262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Errata: Language, Literacy, and Identity: Clinical and Educational Perspectives on African American English in Child Development. 勘误：语言，读写能力和身份：非裔美国人英语在儿童发展中的临床和教育观点。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-06 DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1814433

Monique T Mills

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Relationship Between Measures of Dialect and Teacher Ratings of Student Language Ability. 方言测量与教师对学生语言能力评价的关系

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1055/a-2763-2728

Franchesca M Arecy, Alison Eisel Hendricks

{"title":"Relationship Between Measures of Dialect and Teacher Ratings of Student Language Ability.","authors":"Franchesca M Arecy, Alison Eisel Hendricks","doi":"10.1055/a-2763-2728","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2763-2728","url":null,"abstract":"Students who speak African American English are typically rated lower in language and literacy ability than students who speak General American English. When this happens, it can lead to higher referral rates for evaluations for speech and language disorders and a mischaracterization of academic ability due to linguistic biases. This study explores how teacher ratings of student language and literacy ability are influenced by student dialect use.Teachers completed a questionnaire about students' language and literacy skills. Two measures of student dialect use were computed from student language samples: percent dialect density and a listener judgment task. Linear regressions were conducted to determine the predictive effects of dialect density and listener judgments on teacher ratings. Given that there were significant differences in teacher ratings across grade levels, analyses controlled for student grade.Across two measures of dialect, results suggested that student dialect use did not significantly influence teacher ratings of language and literacy skills when controlling for student grade.The results suggest that factors other than student dialect use may influence teacher ratings. Future research should consider both student-level variables (e.g., socio-economic status) and teacher-level variables (e.g., training and exposure to language variation).","PeriodicalId":48772,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in Speech and Language","volume":" ","pages":"232-245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language, Literacy, and Identity: Clinical and Educational Perspectives on African American English in Child Development. 第2期：语言、读写能力和身份：非裔美国人英语在儿童发展中的临床和教育视角。

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Seminars in Speech and Language Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1055/a-2729-0763

Monique T Mills

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