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LSLT: Arynn Byrd (HESP)

Time: 
Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: 
Language Science Center and Zoom (https://go.umd.edu/lslt-zoom)

 

Dialect Differences and their Impact on Spoken Language Comprehension

Although Mainstream American English (MAE) and African American English (AAE) are mutually intelligible dialects of American English, studies have shown that speakers of both dialects have difficulty using features that are present in one dialect but not the other in listening comprehension tasks (Beyer and Hudson-Kam, 2009, 2015; DeVillers & Johnson, 2007; Jones et al., 2019). The impacts of these miscomprehensions are particularly interesting for children who speak AAE since they are consistently encountering MAE during classroom instruction. This study will evaluate if there are group differences in how AAE- and MAE-speaking children use subject-verb agreement as comprehension cues when listening to sentences and discuss potential impacts of dialect-based miscomprehensions in children.