more generally blacks have a huge number of phonological mergers, most english words sound the same to them so they spend far more time than white developing slang for disambiguation
Different kids exposed to the same language have different abilities in noticing the distinctions between sounds.
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are you talking about e.g. the difference between a kid in inner-city Baltimore and a kid in rural Ohio? b/c that is a dialect difference - same lang, big diff in phonologies
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No. Kids in the same family
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Oh, okay. But that's much more unusual
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Oh I don't think it is though. Kids famously have different pronunciation difficulties (see how many speech pathologists there are), and similarly they have a wide range of spelling abilities. Based on my observation, I think spelling ability variation has a lot to do with
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differences in sound recognition
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