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A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Final /S/ In Miami Cuban Spanish, Andrew Lynch
A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Final /S/ In Miami Cuban Spanish, Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This study analyzes the variation of syllable- and word-final /s/ among two generations of Cubans in Miami, Florida (USA): older, early exile immigrants who arrived in Miami as adults in the 1960s and 1970s, and young Miami-born Cubans whose maternal and paternal grandparents immigrated to Miami from Cuba prior to 1980. Since sibilant weakening is generally considered to be an ongoing language change in Caribbean Spanish, it was hypothesized that the young generation of English-dominant bilinguals would present with much higher rates of aspiration and deletion, in keeping with Carmen Silva-Corvalán’s (1994) hypothesis that linguistic changes are accelerated in situations …
Prosodic Rhythm And African American English, Erik R. Thomas, Phillip M. Carter
Prosodic Rhythm And African American English, Erik R. Thomas, Phillip M. Carter
Phillip M. Carter
Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European American speakers from North Carolina using the metric devised by Low, Grabe, and Nolan (2000), which involves comparisons of the durations of vowels in adjacent syllables. In order to gain historical perspective, the same technique was applied to the ex-slave recordings described in Bailey, Maynor, and Cukor-Avila (1991) and to recordings of five Southern European Americans born before the Civil War. In addition, Jamaicans, Hispanics of Mexican origin who spoke English as their L2, and Hispanics speaking Spanish served as control groups. Results showed that the …
The Subjunctive In Miami Cuban Spanish: Bilingualism, Contact And Language Variability (Ph.D. Dissertation, University Of Minnesota), Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This sociolinguistic study offers an account of the situation of bilingual Miami and analyzes the usage of subjunctive verb forms across three generations of Miami Cuban Spanish speakers.