Harry N Seymour

Dados Biográficos

ID134743
NOMEHarry N Seymour
PRENOMESHarry N
SOBRENOMESeymour
ASSINATURASEYMOUR H N
AFILIAÇÕESDepartment of Communicative Disorders University of Massachusetts at Amherst
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR6
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1973
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2005
ÍNDICE H0

  • Agreement without understanding? The case of third person singular /s

    Open AccessValerie E Johnson, Jill G De Villiers et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2005

    This study examined the comprehension of third person singular /s/ as a number agreement marker in children speaking Mainstream American English (MAE). Sixty-two MAE-speaking children aged 3-6 years were presented with a comprehension task where they had to focus on the verb as a clue to number agreement. Overall, results showed that only the 5- and 6-year olds were sensitive to third person singular /s/ as an index of subject number in comprehen…

  • Narrative Discourse of African American Children

    Tempii Champion, Tempii B Champion et al.ARTICLEJournal of Narrative and Life…1995

    Oral narratives are increasingly used in speech and language evaluations for measuring language skills, and to measure children's organizational skill within a broader communicative context. Because of this, oral-narrative analyses are applied to diverse age ranges and populations. However, there are few studies examining the production of narratives of child speakers of African American English (AAE), and these previous studies offer conflicting…

  • The Symbolism of Ebonics

    Open AccessHarry N Seymour, Charlena M SeymourARTICLEJournal of Black Studies1979

    Ebonics is a variety of English spoken by a majority of Americans. It dates from preslavery to the present while undergoing many linguistic changes along the way. Not until the 1960s had Ebonics become a topic of educational and social significance. The emergence of Ebonics as a prominent issue and ensuing controversy is a product of a period during which people were in the midst of great consciousness raising and self-approbation. It was during …

  • Ebonics And Public Law 94-142

    Open AccessHarry N Seymour, Charlena M SeymourARTICLEJournal of Black Studies1979

    In November, 1975, the Congress of the United States passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, Public Law 94-142 (P.L. 94-142). Major implementation beginning in October, 1977, P.L. 94-142 is truly a monumental event in the history of American education. Almost every parent, teacher and child will in some way be affected by this new law which provides financial support for the education of the handicapped and guarantees their educati…

  • Speaker Intelligibility of Black and White School Children for Black and White Adult Listeners Under Varying Listening Conditions

    Open AccessE Harris Nobber, Harry N SeymourARTICLELanguage and Speech1979Referências: 5

    Word discrimination scores were obtained from 25 black and 25 white college students. Monosyllabic words were spoken by 24 black and 24 white children from a low socio-economic urban environment. Listening was conducted in quiet, at a 10 dB signal-to-noise ratio, and at a 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Results showed black children and white children were equally intelligible to the black adult-listeners, while the white adult-listeners found white …

  • Loss of Control in Alcoholism; An Investigation of the Hypothesis, with Experimental Findings

    Alfonso Paredes, William R Hood et al.ARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Studies on…1973

    Hospitalized alcoholics were able to drink and follow the rules prescribed for the drinking in an experimental drinking situation. The loss of control theory of alcoholism is discussed in view of these findings