Children's relative clause markers in two non-mainstream dialects of English.
Oetting Janna B, Newkirk Brandi L·Clinical linguistics & phonetics
We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. that, who, which, what, where, Ø) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker, humanness of the antecedent and adjacency…