The Schooling Process and Awareness of the Standard: Examples from DialectPhonetics  

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Santos, Isabel Almeida ; Martins, Cristina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 4 (2002), page 229-239.
Fulltext: 11.4.229-239.pdf (210.99KB)

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Linguistic diversity is an essential characteristic of speech communities. However, at the sametime as one observes diversity, differentmechanismsof linguistic unification are also active, emphasising the importance of standard varieties. The schooling system is one of these mechanisms, and, as such, the observation of how children’s linguistic behaviour is affectedby it is a topic of interest. In such an analysis it is useful to bear inmind that, in school, children are introduced to thewritten form of language. One of the most obvious dimensions of language variation is geographical. In this study we investigate, first the extent to which traditional regional characteristics persist in the linguistic repertoire of school children, and then on the manner inwhich dialectalfeaturesand the level of children’s awarenessof theminteractwith learningto read and write. Data from a sample of children in the first to fourth years of elementary schools (in the districts of Viseuand Coimbra, Portugal) were collectedandanalysed.

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