1. SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES IN THE SPEECH OF SIX YEAR OLD HUNGARIAN CHILDREN.
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Pap, Mária and Pléh, Csaba
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SOCIAL classes , *CLASS differences , *SCHOOL children , *SPEECH - Abstract
This paper reports on a Hungarian study of social class differences in the speech of 65 six year old children from 5 primary schools in Budapest. Speech samples were collected from stories which were elicited by a series of pictures. Five quantitative indices of context-dependence were constructed; and, on the basis of these indices, contexts dependence was related to the child's own social background and to the social composition of the school. It was found that the speech of `advantaged' children was structurally more complex and less context-dependent than the speech of `disadvantaged' children. Overall, the study demonstrates the applicability of the concept of context-dependence in a non- English speaking country, and provides yet another demonstration of the influence of social class differences on speech codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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