For example, mental health care providers may attribute speaker's behavior to cognitive or emotional deficits, even to a psychopathological extent. In a study of a psychiatric ward, Bucci and Baxter collected data on the impact of linguistic problems of the patients, which included several monodialectal speakers and bidialectal speakers of AAVE.
For example, mental health care providers may attribute a speaker's behavior to cognitive or emotional limitations, even to an extreme degree. Researchers Bucci and Baxter studied the effects of linguistic challenges on psychiatric ward patients, including those who spoke with limited dialectal proficiency in AAVE.