10.401, Sum: Second Dialect Acquisition

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Date:  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:10:52 +1100
From:  Jeff Siegel <jsiegel at metz.une.edu.au>
Subject:  Second Dialect Acquisition

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Date:  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:10:52 +1100
From:  Jeff Siegel <jsiegel at metz.une.edu.au>
Subject:  Second Dialect Acquisition

Fellow LINGUISTS,

A few weeks back I posted a query about recent studies of second dialect
acquisition.

Many thanks to the following people for replying:

Elizabeth M. Bergman
Ana Deumert
Aaron E. Drews
Marta Fairclough
John Gainer
Anthea Fraser Gupta
Kirk Hazen
Terri Menacker
Lynn Santelman
Nick Sobin
Bob Trammell
Natasha Warner

Below is a list of references for studies since 1980, complied from the
replies and my own list.

Jeff Siegel
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia


Adger, C. T. (in press). Register shifting with dialect resources in
instructional discourse. In S. Hoyle & C. T. Adger (Eds.), Language
practices of older children. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ammon, Ulrich. 1989. Aspects of dialect and school in the Federal Republic
of Germany. In Jenny Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 113-138.

Au, Kathry H. 1976. KEEP reading research. Honolulu: Kamehameha Early
Education Program (Technical Report no. 57).

Barbour, Stephen. 1987. Dialects and the teaching of Standlard Language:
Some West German work. Language in Society 16: 227-244.

Bull, Tove. 1990. Teaching school beginners to read and write in the
vernacular. In E.H. Jahr & O. Lorentz (Eds.), Troms Linguistics in the
Eighties. Oslo: Novus Press (Troms Studies in Linguistics 11), pp. 69-84.

Carter, Candy (Ed.) Non-native and Nonstandard Dialect Students: Classroom
Practices in Teaching English, 1982-1983. Urbana, IL: National Council for
the Teaching of English.

Cheshire, Jenny & Dieter Stein, eds. 1997. Taming the Vernacular. London:
Longman.
Cheshire, Jenny, Viv Edwards, Henk Mnstermann & Bert Weltens, Eds. 1989.
Dialect and education: Some European perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual
Matters.

Cheshire, Jenny. 1982. Dialect features and linguistic conflict in schools.
Educational Review 14(1): 53-67.

Craig, Dennis. 1988.  Creole English and Education in Jamaica. In C.B.
Paulston (Ed.), International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual
Education. New York: Greenwood, pp. 297-312.

Craig, Dennis. 1998. "Afta yu lann dem fi riid an rait dem Kriiyol, den wa
muo?" Creole and the teaching of the lexifier language. Paper presented at
the 3rd International Creole Workshop, Miami.

Day, Richard R. 1989. The acquisition and maintenance of language by
minority children. Language Learning 29(2): 295-303.

Delpit, L. (1990). Language diversity and learning. In S. Hynds & D. Rubin
(Eds.), Perspectives on talk and learning (pp. 247-266). Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Escure, Genevieve. 1997 Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard Acquisition
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Fairman, Tony. 1988. Teaching the Englishes. IRAL 26(2).

Giesbers, Herman, Sjaak Kroon & Rudi Liebrand. 1988. The Bidialectalism and
primary school achievement in a Dutch Dialect Area. Language and Education,
2(2): 77-94.

Graff, David, William Labov, and Wendell A. Harris.  1986. Testing
listeners' reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity:  A new
method for sociolinguistic research.  In D. Sankoff (Ed.), Diversity and
Diachrony. Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, pp.45-58.

Gupta, Anthea Fraser. 1994. The step-tongue: Children's English in
Singapore. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Hartwell, Patrick. 1980. Dialect interference in writing: A critical
review.  Research in the Teaching of English 14(2): 101-118.

Hidalgo, Margarita. 1987. On the Question of "Standard" versus "Dialect":
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James, Carl. 1996. Mother tongue use in bilingual/bidialectal education:
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Jrgensen, J. Normann & Karen Margrethe Pedersen. 1989. Dialect and
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Kaldor, Susan. 1991. Standard Australian English as a Second Language and
as a Second Dialect. In M.L. Tickoo, Makhan L.(Ed.), Languages & Standards:
Issues, Attitudes, Case Studies.

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approach to the question. In V. Gadsden and D. Wagner (Eds.), Literacy
Among African-American Youth.

Lewis, Shirley A. 1981. Practical aspects of teaching composition to
Bidialectal students: The Nairobi method. In Whiteman, Marcia Farr (Ed.),
Writing: The nature development and teaching of written communication, Vol.
1, Variation in Writing. pp. 189-196.

Liew, Elizabeth M. 1996. Developmental Interdependence Hypothesis revisted
in the Brunei classroom. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development, 17(2-4): 195-204.

Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an accent. London: Routledge.

Los Angeles Unified School District & Noma LeMoine. 1999).English for your
success: Handbook of successful strategies for educators. Maywood, NJ:
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minimal distance. Unpublished paper, Department of English as Second
Language, University of Hawai'i.

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and Multicultural Development 3(3).

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March).

Ornstein Galicia, Jacob. 1980. Black English--New Role in the Classroom?
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Payne, Arvilla C. 1980. Factors controlling the acquisition of the
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Language in Time and Space. New York: Academic Press, pp. 143-178.

Politzer, Robert. 1993. A Researcher's Reflections on Bridging Dialect and
Second Language Learning: Discussion of Problems and Solutions. In Merino,
Trueba & Samaniego (Eds.), Language Culture and Learning: Teaching Spanish
to Native Speakers of Spanish. London: The Falmer Press.

Reed, Theresa C.Y. & Peter D. Pumfrey. 1992. Dialect interference and the
reading attainments of British Pakistani and ethnic majority pupils.
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African American Speech Community. Language in Society 26(2): 161-197.

Rickford, John R. 1997b. The evolution of the Ebonics issue. Pidgins and
Creoles in Education (PACE) Newsletter 8: 8-10.

Robbins, Judy Floyd. 1988. Employers' Language Expectations and Nonstandard
Dialect Speakers. English Journal 77(6).

Roberts, J. 1997a. Hitting a moving target: Acquisition of a sound change
in progress by Philadelphia children. Language Variation and Change 9:
249-266.

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of short -a by preschool children. Language Variation and Change 7: 101-112.

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deletion in preschool children. Journal of Child Language. Vol 24(2):
351-372.

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Cheshire et al (Eds.), pp. 62-93

Sato, Charlene J. 1989. A nonstandard approach to standard English. TESOL
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Williamson, John & Frank Hardman. 1997. Those terrible marks of the beast:
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287-299.

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447-473.

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