Steve, 

For the question, look at the work of Katherine Perera.   She has a review paper in Flechter and Garmin (1986) (eds) Language Acquisition. She also has a book on this issue in the late eighties.

Send me a request offline for some assistance on getting this paper.

Bob Yates
University of Central Missouri



On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Stephen King <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Can anyone direct me to a text that focuses, at length, on the differences between spoken and written versions of language? It seems to me that a great many of my community college students, especially those who have been out of school for some time, use a version of English that could be characterized as "Spoken English Written Down." (A colleague suggested the acronym "SPEWD.") I have my own list of those differences, but am looking for other resources. Many thanks in advance!

Steve King

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