SPH 438 - Dialect Differences in Schools

(2 credits)

Study of certain aspects of urban language patterns with special attention to linguistic features of those persons described as culturally different; investigation and discussion of literature on oral language variations as related to listener attitudes, social and economic consequences, school success, and questions concerning approaches to the problem of speech and language specialists; analysis and evaluation of language samples. This course may fulfill a General Education Requirement.

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