@article{ref1,
title="A study of the frequency of analogical responses to questions in black and white preschool-age children",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="1986",
author="Lawson, Joan",
volume="1",
number="4",
pages="379-386",
abstract="Recent findings of ethnographic research conducted by Heath (1983) indicate that some children, particularly nonmainstream children, may respond to questions analogically--that is, by describing the object or event they have experienced or been exposed to in terms of their own experience, as opposed to responding referentially (i.e., by providing a specific name or label). The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative frequency of analogical responses to questions in three groups: 15 inner-city black preschoolers, 15 inner-city white preschoolers, and 15 mainstream white preschoolers. Data were gathered from the language portion of a developmental screening battery that included question-answering tasks from the Blank Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (Blank, Rose, &amp; Berlin 1978). Analysis of the data indicated that (a) there was a significant difference in the number of analogical responses between black and white children regardless of whether the white children were inner-city or mainstream and (b) the frequency of use of analogical responses to questions was highest among the black children participating in the study.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/0885-2006(86)90014-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2006(86)90014-1"
}