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Dialect Influence On California Chicano English, Laura Kompara
Dialect Influence On California Chicano English, Laura Kompara
Purdue Linguistic Association Symposium
Chicano English is a distinct U.S. English dialect common in California and the Southwestern United States. As Spanish immigrants from Mexico moved to the United States, especially throughout the 1990s, they learned English but carried some of the sounds and grammatical constructions from Spanish with them. Chicano English has become its own variety of English with organized linguistic patterns and must not be confused with English of second-language learners. This paper offers an accessible background piece to Chicano English in California and the ways that this dialect is changing due to contact with the surrounding dialects. The linguistic patterns of …
Book Review - Quintiliani, K. & Needham, S. (2008). Cambodians In Long Beach, Megan Berthold
Book Review - Quintiliani, K. & Needham, S. (2008). Cambodians In Long Beach, Megan Berthold
Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement
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