Selected Bibliography by Members of the AAE Working Groups

Note: A preliminary version of the Reference Pages from DELV-CR Manual is linked here. 
It includes a more complete listing of publications than the list below by the UMass team 
as well as their sources for the DELV (Seymour, Roeper, & de Villiers, 2003).  We add a
newer set of AAE references contributed to  InfoChildes, January 8-10, 2004.

 

Publications (below) | Dissertations | Presentations and other Works in Progress

 

Tests

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2003). DELV-ST (Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation) Screening Test .   San Antonio TX: The Psychological Corporation.

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2003). DELV-CR (Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation) Criterion-Referenced Test .   San Antonio TX: The Psychological Corporation.

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2005). DELV-NR (Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation) Norm-Referenced Test .   San Antonio TX: The Psychological Corporation.

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2000, unpublished). Dialect Sensitive Language Test (DSLT).   San Antonio TX: The Psychological Corporation.

 

Special Issue on the DELV

Seymour, H. N. & Pearson, B. Z. (Guest Eds.) (February   2004). Evaluating language variation: Distinguishing   development and dialect from disorder. Special issue of Seminars in Speech and Language , NY: Thieme Medical   Publishers.

Ciolli, L. & Seymour, H. N. (2004). Dialect identification versus evaluation of risk in language screening.   Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1), 33-40.

de Villiers, J. G. (2004). Cultural and linguistic fairness in the assessment of semantics. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 73-90.

de Villiers, P. A. (2004). Assessing pragmatic skills in elicited production.   Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 57-72.

Pearson, B. Z. (2004). Theoretical and empirical bases for dialect-neutral language assessment: Contributions from theoretical and applied linguistics to communication disorders. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 13-26

Pearson, B. Z. & Ciolli, L. (2004). Distinguishing dialect and development from disorder: Case studies. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 101-112.

Roeper, T. (2004). Diagnosing language variations: Underlying principles for syntactic assessment.   Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 41-56.

Seymour, H. N. (2004). 91 A Noncontrastive Model for Assessment of Phonology. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 91-100.

Seymour, H. N. (2004). The challenge of language assessment for African American English-speaking children: A historical perspective.   Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1 ), 3-12.

Seymour, H. N. & Pearson, B. Z. (2004). Steps in designing and implementing an innovative assessment instrument.   Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1), 27-32.

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2004). 113 Conclusions, future directions, and implications for remediation. Seminars in Speech and Language, 25 (1), 113-115.

In press

Johnson, V. & de Villiers, J. G. (in press). Syntactic Frames in Fast Mapping Verbs: The Effect of Age, Dialect and Clinical Status. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Pearson, B. Z., Velleman, S. L., Bryant, T. J. & Charko. T . (in press). Phonological milestones for African American English-speaking children learning Mainstream American English as a second dialect. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.


2008

De Villiers, J., Roeper, T., Bland-Stewart, L. & Pearson, B. Z. (2008).Answering hard questions: Wh-movement across dialects and disorder. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 61-103.


2007

de Villiers J.G. & Johnson, V. (2007). Implications of new vocabulary assessments for minority children. In R. Wagner, A. Muse & K. Tannebaum   (Eds.), Vocabulary acquisition and its implications for reading comprehension (pp. 157-181) . NY: Guilford Press.

Gxilishe. S., de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. (2007) Acquisition of tense in Xhosa; the long and the short of it. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake & I-H. Woo (Eds) Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 1 (pp. 274-285). Somerville, Ma: Cascadilla Press.

Gxilishe, S., de Villiers, P.A.. & de Villiers, J.G. (2007). The acquisition of subject agreement in Xhosa. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni and M. Umeda (Eds.), Galana 2 - Proceedings of the Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America, (pp. 114-123). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Roeper, T. (2007).   The prism of grammar: How everyone can discover unique minds in child language.   Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Roeper, T., Schulz, P., Pearson, B. Z. & Reckling, I. (2007).   From singleton to exhaustive: The acquisition of wh-. Proceedings of SULA 2005 Conference, Buffalo NY (Semantics of Understudied Languages) (pp. 87-102). UMOP 33, Amherst MA: GSLA Publisher (w/ Book Surge).

de Villiers J.G. & Johnson, V. (2007) The information in third person /s/. Journal of Child Language, 34, 133-158.

 

2006

Bland-Stewart, L. & Pearson, B. Z. (2006). Difference vs. Deficit: Delving into a Solution with the New Norm-Referenced Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (DELV-NR). In ASHA Special Interest Division #14 Newsletter: Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, Cathy Huaqing Qi, Guest Editor.

Roeper, T., Strauss, U. & Pearson, B. Z. (2006).   The acquisition path of the determiner quantifier every: Two kinds of spreading.   In T. Heizmann (Ed.), Papers in Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers UMOP, 34. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

 

2005

Bland-Stewart, L. M. (2005, May 3). Difference or deficit in speakers of African American English: What every clinician should know...and do. The ASHA Leader , p. 6-7, 30-31.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Kochanoff, A., Newcombe, N. & de Villiers, J.G. (2005) Using scientific knowledge to inform preschool assessment: making the case for empirical validity. Social Policy Report (SRCD ) Volume XIX, 1, 3-19.

Johnson, V. (2005).   Comprehension of third person singular /s/ in AAE-speaking children.   Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36, 116-124.

Johnson, V. & de Villiers, J.G. (2005). Agreement without understanding: the case of third person /s/.   First Language, 25, 317 - 330.

Pearson, B. Z. (2005). Review of M. Hickmann, Children's discourse: Person, space and time across languages. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Journal of Child Language,32(2) . 463-69.

Pearson, B. Z. & de Villiers, P.A. (2005).   Child language acquisition: Discourse, narrative, and pragmatics.   In K. Brown/ E. Lieven,   (Eds.).   Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2 nd edition.   Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (2005). DELV-NR (Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation) Norm-Referenced Test .   San Antonio TX: The Psychological Corporation.

 

2004

Coles-White, D.  (2004).  Negative concord in child African American English: Implications for Specific Language Impairment.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47 , 212- 222.

Coles-White, D.J., de Villiers, J. G., & Roeper, T.   (2004). The emergence of barriers to wh-movement, negative   concord and quantification. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla,   & C. Smith (Eds.), BUCLD 28, The proceedings of the   28th annual Boston University Conference on Language   Development (pp. 98-107).   Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

de Villiers, J. G., de Villiers, P. A., Pearson, B. Z.,   Roeper, T. & Seymour, H. N. (February 9, 2004). Raising the   standard: New approaches for language assessment. In D. Beck (Ed.), Speech Pathology On-line ,   http://www.speechpathology.com

de Villiers, P.A., de Villiers, J.G., Roeper, T.,   Seymour, H. N. & Pearson, B. Z. (spring 2004). Unbiased   assessment of first language acquisition in English: Distinguishing development and dialect from disorder. In   Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics , Stellenbosch   University, Cape Town, S. A.

Pearson, B. Z. (in conjunction with T. Roeper) (2004).   Learnability and triggers: Obligatory versus optional   triggers for the passive in two dialects of English and in   language impairment. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C.   Smith (Eds.), BUCLD 28, The proceedings of the 28th   annual Boston University Conference on Language   Development (pp. 447-460). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

2003

Champion, T., Hyter, Y., McCabe, A., & Bland-Stewart, L. (2003). "A matter of vocabulary": Performances of low-income African American Head Start children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test III. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 24 (3), 121-127.

de Villiers, J.G. and de Villiers, P.A. (2003) Language for thought: Coming to understand false beliefs. In Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Eds.). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought (pp. 335-384). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

de Villiers, P.A., Burns, F., & Pearson, B. Z. (2003). The role of language in the theory of mind development of language impaired children: Complementing theories. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Boston University Conference on Child Development (pp. 232-242). Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

2002

Champion, T. (2002). Understanding storytelling among African American children: A journey from Africa to America . Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

de Villiers, J.G. (2002). How can linguistic theory   contribute to the definition of SLI. In Y. Levy & J.   Schaeffer (Eds.). Language competence across populations:   Toward a definition of SLI. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

de Villiers, J.G. & Pyers, J. (2002). Complements   to cognition: A longitudinal study of the relationship   between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding.   Cognitive Development, 17(1), 1037-1060.

Green, L., (2002). African American English: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kamawar, D., Garfield, J. & de Villiers, J.G. (2002). Difficulties with a computational model of weak coherence as an explanation of autism. Mind and Language, 17 (3), 266-272.

Pearson, B. Z. (2002). Narrative competence in bilingual school children in Miami. In D. K. Oller & R. Eilers (Eds.),   Language and literacy development in bilingual   children (pp. 135-174) . Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Silliman, E. & Champion, T. (2002). Three dilemmas in cross-cultural narrative analysis: Introduction to the   special issue. Linguistics and Education, 13 (2), 143-150.

University of Massachusetts Working Group on African American English.   (2002). Development Milestones for AAE Speaking 4-, 5-, 6-Year-Olds . Unpublished report to the National Institutes of Health. Department of Communication Disorders, Amherst, MA.

Wyatt, T. A. (2002). Assessing the communicative   abilities of clients from diverse cultural and language   backgrounds. In D.E. Battle (Ed.) Communication disorders   in multicultural populations , 3rd ed. (pp. 415-459). Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

2001

Allen, B.A., de Villiers, J.G. & François, S.   (2001). Deficit or difference: African American children's linguistic paths towards a Theory of Mind. In symposium,   Language acquisition, point of view and possible worlds. In   M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal,   & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Research on child language   acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress   of Child Languag e, San Sebastian, 1999 (pp. 1006-1014).   Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Champion, T. (2001). Moral-centered narratives: Narrative   production among African American children. The Negro   Educational Review, 52 (4), 165-179.

de Villiers, J.G. (2001). Continuity and modularity in   language acquisition and research. In F. Wijnen, M Verrips   & L. Santelmann (Eds.), Annual Review of Language   Acquisition , 1, 1-64.

de Villiers, J.G. (2001) Extension, intension and other   minds. In symposium, Language acquisition, point of view and   possible worlds. In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J.   Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal, & B. MacWhinney (Eds.),   Research on child language acquisition: Proceedings of   the 8th International Congress of Child Language , San   Sebastian, 1999 (pp. 1015-1025). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla   Press.

de Villiers, J.G. (2001) Language acquisition, point of   view and possible worlds. Introduction to symposium. In M.   Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal, &   B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Research on child language   acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress   of Child Language, San Sebastian, 1999 (pp. 981-983).   Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

de Villiers, J. G. (2001) Language acquisition and   language disorders. In J. Kagan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of   the Child and Child Development . Chicago: Eastman.

de Villiers, P.A. & Pyers, J. (2001). Complementation   and false-belief representation. In symposium, Language   acquisition, point of view and possible worlds. In M.   Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal, &   B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Research on child language   acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress   of Child Language, San Sebastian, 1999 (pp. 984-1005).   Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Pearson, B. Z. (2001). Bilingual infants: What we know, what we   need to know.   In M. Suarez-Orozco & M.   Páez, (Eds.), Latinos: Remaking America . (pp.   306-320). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Pearson, B. Z. (2001). Language and mind in the stories   of bilingual children. In L. Verhoeven & S. Lundquist,   (Eds.), Narrative development in a multilingual context (pp. 373-398). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Roeper, T., Ramos, E. Seymour, H.N. & Abdul-Karim, L. (2001). Language disorders as a window on a universal   grammar: An abstract theory of agreement for IP, DP, and V-PP.   Brain and Language , 77(3), 378-397.

Wyatt,   T. A. (2001). The role of   family, community and school in children's acquisition and maintenance of African American English.   In S. Lanehart (Ed.),   Sociocultural   and historical contexts of African American English (pp. 261-280). Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2000

Bloome, D., Champion, T., Katz, L., Morton, M. &   Muldrow, R. (2000). Spoken and written narrative   development: African American preschoolers as storytellers   and storymakers. In A. Kamhi, K. Pollock & J. Harris (Eds.), Literacy in African American communities (pp. 45-75).   Mahwah, N. J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Champion, T.B. (2000). Storytelling in an urban preschool classroom: Reconceptualizing narrative analysis . Newsletter of the ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, 6 (3) 11-14.

de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (2000). Linguistics determination and the understanding of false beliefs. In P. Mitchell & K. J. Riggs (Eds.), Children's reasoning and the mind (pp. 191-228). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Schafer, R. & de Villiers, J. (2000). Imagining articles: What "a" and "the" can tell us   about the emergence of DP. In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish, and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceeding of the 24th annual Boston University Conference   on Language Development: Volume 2 (pp. 609-620). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Schafer, R., & Roeper, T. (2000). The Role of the   Expletive in the Acquisition of a discourse Anaphor. In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish, and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceeding of the 24th annual Boston University Conference   on Language Development: Volume 2 (pp. 621-632). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Wyatt, T. A. (2000). Response to Ebonics and education in   the context of culture. In J. D. Ramírez,   T. G. Wiley, G. deKlerk, & E. Lee (Eds.), Ebonics in the urban education debate .   Long Beach, CA:  Center   for Language   Minority Education and Research, California State University Long   Beach.


1999

Champion, T., Katz, L., Dail, R., & Muldrow, R.   (1999). Storytelling and storymaking in an urban preschool   classroom: Building bridges from home to school culture."   Topics in Language Disorders , 19 (3), 52-67.

Dickey, M. W., Johnson, V. E., Roeper, T., Seymour,   H. N. (1999). Tense and discourse in African American   English. In B. Hollebrandse (Ed.), Proceedings of the New   Perspectives on Language Acquisition Conference (pp. 107-124). Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Roeper, T. (1999). Universal bilingualism. Bilingualism , 2 (3), 169-186.

Seymour, H. N., Abdulkarim, L., & Johnson, V. (1999).   The Ebonics controversy: An educational and clinical   dilemma. Topics in Language Disorders, 19(4) , 66-77.

Seymour, H. N., & Roeper, T. (1999). Grammatical   acquisition of African American English. In O. Taylor &   L. Leonard (Eds.), Speech and language in North America (pp. 109-153). San Diego CA:   Singular Press.

Wyatt, T. A. (1999).   An Afro-centered view of communicative competence.   In D. Kovarsky, J. Duchan, & M. Maxwell (Eds.), Constructing (in)competence: Disabling evaluations in clinical and social interaction .   Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wyatt, T. A. & Seymour, H. N. (1999). Assessing the   speech and language skills in preschool children. In E. V. Nuttall, I. Romero, & J. Kalesnik (Eds.), Assessing and screening preschoolers : Psychological and educational dimensions. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

1998

Abdulkarim, L., & Roeper, T. (1998). Semantic   or syntax for negative islands in language acquisition. In   A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield, & H. Walsh   (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University   Conference on Language Development: Vol. 1 (pp. 39-49).   Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Benedicto, E., Abdulkarim, L., Garrett, D., Johnson, V.,   & Seymour, H. N. (1998). Overt copulas in African   American English speaking children. In A. Greenhill, M.   Hughes, H.Littlefield, & H. Walsh (Eds.), Proceedings of   the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language   Development: Vol. 1 (pp. 50-57). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla   Press.

Bland-Stewart, L. M., Seymour, H. N., Beeghly, M., &   Frank, D.A. (1998). Semantic development in African American   children prenatally exposed to cocaine. Seminars in Speech   and Language . 19(2), 167-187.

Champion, T. (1998) "Tell me somethin' good": A   description of narrative structures among African American   children. Linguistics and Education, 9(3) , 251-286.

Seymour, H., Bland-Stewart, L., & Green, L. J.   (1998). Difference versus deficit in child African-American   English. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in   Schools, 29 , 96-108.

Seymour, H. N., & Valles, L. (1998). Language   intervention for linguistically different learners. In C. Seymour & H. Nober (Eds.), Introduction to communication   disorders: A cultural social approach . Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann.

1997

Champion, T.B. (1997). "Tell me somethin' good.": A description of narrative structures among African American children. Linguistic and Education, 9 (3), 251-286.

Seymour, H. N. (1997). Ebonics debate. Voice, 2(March).

1996

Champion, T., Seymour, H., & Camaratta, S. (1996).   Narrative discourse in African American children. Journal of   Narrative and Life History, 5(4).

de Villiers, J. G. (1996). Defining the open and closed   program for acquisition: The case of wh-questions. In M.   Rice (Ed.), Towards a genetics of language . Hillsdale, NJ:   Lawrence Erlbaum.

de Villiers, J. G., & Roeper, T. (1996). Questions   after stories: Supplying context and removing it as a   variable. In D. McDaniel, H. Cairns, & C. McKee (Eds.),   Methods for assessing children's syntax (pp. 163-188).   Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Jackson, J., Ramos, E., Hall, F., Coles, D. J., Seymour,   H. N., Dickey, M., Broderick, K., & Hollebrandse, B.   (1996). They be taggin', don't they? The acquisition of   invariant Be. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E.   Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th   Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development:   Vol. 1 (pp. 364-373). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Johnson, K., Bateman, S., Moore, D., Roeper, T., & de   Villiers, J. G. (1996). On the acquisition of word order in   nominals. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes,   & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development: Vol. 1   (pp. 397-406). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Philip W. (1996). The event quantificational account of symmetrical interpretation and a denial of implausible infelicity. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference onLanguage Development (pp. 564-575). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

1995

de Villiers, J. G. (1995). Introduction to the special   issue on the acquisition of wh -questions. Language   Acquisition , 4, 1-4.

de Villiers, J. G. (1995). Empty categories and complex sentences: The case of wh -questions. In P. Fletcher & B.   MacWhinney (Eds.), Handbook of language acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell.

de Villiers, J. G., & Roeper, T. (1995). Barriers,   binding, and the acquisition of the DP/NP distinction.   Language Acquisition , 4, 73-104.

de Villiers, J. G., & Roeper, T. (1995). Relative   clauses are barriers to wh -movement for young children.   Journal of Child Language , 22, 389-404.

Green, L. (1995). Study of verb classes in African   American English. Linguistics and Education , 7(1),   65-81.

Seymour, H., Champion, T., & Jackson, J. (1995). The   language of African- American learners: Effective assessment   and instructional programming for special needs children. In   B. Ford, F. Obiakor, & J. Patton (Eds.), Education of African-American Exceptional Learners: New Perspectives .   Austin TX: Pro Ed.

Vainikka,   A. & Roeper,   T. (1995) Abstract operators in early acquisition. Linguistic Review, 12, 275-310.

Weissenborn, J., Roeper, T., & de Villiers, J. G.   (1995). Wh -acquisition in French and German: Connections   between case, wh-features and unique triggers. Recherches   Linguistiques , 24,125-155.

Wyatt, T. (1995). Language development in African   American English child speech. Linguistics and   Education , 7, 7-22.

1994

Roeper, T., & de Villiers, J. G. (1994). Lexical   links in the wh -chain. In B. Lust, G. Hermon, & J.   Kornfilt (Eds.), Syntactic theory and first language   acquisition: Cross-linguistic perspectives Vol II:   Binding, dependencies, and learnability, (pp. 357-390). Hillsdale NJ:   Erlbaum.

Roeper, T., & Seymour, H. N. (1994). The place of   linguistic theory in the theory of language acquisition and   language impairment. In Y. Levy (Ed.), Other children, other   languages: Issues in the theory of language acquisition (pp. 305-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1993

Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (1993). The emergence of bound variable structures. In E. Reuland & W. Abraham   (Eds.), Knowledge and language: Orwell's problem and Plato's problem (pp. 105-139). Boston: Kluwer Academic.

1992

Seymour, H. N. (1992). The invisible children: A reply to   Lahey's perspective. The Journal of Speech and Hearing   Research, 35 , 640-641.

Seymour, H.N. & Wyatt, T. (1992) Speech and language   assessment of preschool children. In E. V. Nuttall, I. Romero, & J. Kalesnik (Eds.), Assessing and screening preschoolers : Psychological and educational dimensions. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Seymour, H.N. (1992, Spring). Multicultural concerns: Its relevance in   Communication Disorders, NSSLHA News & Notes , pp. 1 / 7.

1991

de Villiers, P. A. (1991). English literacy development in deaf children: Directions for research and intervention.   In J. Miller (Ed.), Research in child language disorders: A decade of progress (pp. 349-378). Austin, TX: ProEd.

Seymour, H.N. (1991). Language development and language   disorders in children: Sample course syllabus. In L. Cole   (Ed.), Multicultural Diversity within the Professional   Education Curriculum . Rockville, MD: American   Speech-Language-Hearing Association,

Seymour, H. N., & Bland, L. (1991). A minority   perspective in diagnosis of child language disorders.   Clinics in Communication Disorders, 1(1).

1990

de Villiers, J. G., Roeper, T., & Vainikka, A.   (1990). The acquisition of long-distance rules. In L.   Frazier & J. de Villiers (Eds.), Language processing and acquisition (pp. 257-297). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Weissenborn , J., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J.G. (1990). The acquisition of wh -movement   in German and French. In T. L. Maxfield & B. Plunkett (Eds.), Papers in the Acquisition of wh. Proceedings of the University of Massachusetts Roundtable (pp. 43-73). Amherst, MA: UMOP Special Edition.

Wyatt, T. A., & Seymour, H. N. (1990). The   implications of code-switching in Black English speakers.   Equity and Excellence , 24(4), 17-18.

1988

de Villiers, P. (1998). Assessing English syntax in   hearing impaired children: Eliciting production in   pragmatically-motivated situations. In R. Kretschmer & L. Kretschmer (Eds.), Communication assessment of hearing-impaired students (pp. 41-72) . Academy of Rehabilitative   Audiology, Monograph Supplement, Vol. 2.

Seymour, C.M., & Seymour, H.N. (1988). Anatomy of an   effective recruitment and retention program, In Cole. L.   (Ed.). Communication Sciences and Disorders: Marketing   careers to minority students . Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.


1987

 Roeper, T. (1987). The acquisition of implicit   arguments and the distinction between theory, process, and   mechanism. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of language   acquisition (pp. 309-343). Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Seymour, H. N. & Seymour, C. M. (1987). Assessment   of phonological disorders among Black English speakers. In L. Cole & V. R. Deal (Eds.), Communication Disorders in   Multicultural Populations . ASHA ASHA Training Manual.

1986

Seymour, H.N. (1986). Clinical intervention strategies for   language disorders among nonstandard English speaking   children. In O.L. Taylor (Ed.), Treatment of communication disorders in culturally and linguistically diverse populations . San Diego CA: College-Hill Press.

Seymour, H.N. (1986). Alternative strategies for the teaching of   language to minority individuals. Proceedings of the 1st   National Symposium on Concerns for Minority Groups in   Communication Disorders .

Seymour, H. N., Ashton, N., & Wheeler, L. W. (1986).   The effect of race on language elicitation. Language Speech   and Hearing Services in Schools, 17(3), 146-151.

1985

de Villiers, J. G. & de Villiers, P. A. (1985). Acquisition of English. In D. Slobin (Ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language   acquisition: Vol. 1. The data (pp. 27-140). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Seymour, H. N., & Ralabate, P. (1985). The   acquisition of a phonological feature of Black English.   Journal of Communication Disorders, 18 , 139-148.

1981

Seymour, H.N. & Miller-Jones, D. (1981). Language and cognitive   assessment of Black children. In N. Lass (Ed.), Speech and language:   Advances in basic research and practice, Vol. 6 (pp. 203-263). NY: Academic Press.

Seymour, H. N. & Seymour, C. M. (1981). Black   English and Standard American English contrasts in   consonantal development of four- and five-year-old children.   Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 46(3) , 274-280.

 

1979

Nober, E. H., & Seymour, H. N. (1979). Speaker   intelligibility of black and white school children for black   and white adult listeners under varying listening conditions. Language and Speech, 22 , 237-242.

Seymour, H. N. & Baran, J. (1979). Reply to Parker's   "A comment on Baran and Seymour's The influence of three   phonological rules." Journal of Speech and Hearing Research,   22(3), 662-665.

Seymour, H. N., & Seymour, C. M. (1979). The   symbolism of Black English: I'd rather switch than fight.   The Journal of Black Studies (Special Issue on Ebonics [Black English]: Implications for Education), 9(4) , 397-410.

Seymour, H. N., & Seymour, C. M. (1979). Black   English and the public law. The Journal of Black Studies (Special Issue on Ebonics [Black English]: Implications for Education), 9(4), 449-468.

 

1978

de Villiers, J. G. & de Villiers, P. A. (1978). Language acquisition. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

1977

Seymour, H. N., & Seymour, C. M. (1977). A therapeutic model for communicative disorders among children who speak Black English Vernacular. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 42, 247-256.

1976

Baran, J., & Seymour, H. N. (1976). The influence of three phonological rules of Black English on the discrimination of minimal word pairs. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research,19, 467-474.

1975

Matthei, E. & Roeper, T. (1975). On the acquisition of ''all'' and ''some.'' Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 9, 63-74.

Seymour, H. N. (1975). Attributes of pitch level, rate   level and loudness level among male children. Journal of   Communication Disorders, 8, 97-104.

1974

Nober, E.H. and Seymour, H.N., Speech Recognition Scores of White and of Black Student-Teacher Listeners for Black and for White First Grade Speakers, U.S. Office of Education Monograph.

1973 de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (1973). Development of the use of word order in comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , 2 (4), 331-341.

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