Spanish-influenced rhythm in Miami English

Authors

  • Naomi Ruth Enzinna Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3733

Keywords:

sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, phonetics, rhythm, prosody, Miami, English, Spanish, bilingual, dialect, variation

Abstract

This study found that monolingual English speakers from Miami speak an English variety influenced by Spanish. In this study, speech from Miami English monolinguals, English monolinguals not from Miami, and early and late Spanish-English bilinguals were collected, and rhythm metrics (Ramus et al., 1999) were compared between groups. Surprisingly, results also suggest that Miami English monolinguals with English-speaking parents and from neighborhoods with a lower Hispanic population may be leading this change. These results support Labov's (2014) claim that children may reject features of their parent language (in this case, English) when the speech community is highly stratified.

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Published

2016-06-12

Issue

Vol. 1 (2016): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Section

Articles

License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Enzinna, Naomi Ruth. 2016. “Spanish-Influenced Rhythm in Miami English”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1 (June): 34:1–15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3733.