Mexican American English - Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

List of contents

1. Language contact, immigration, and Latino Englishes Erik R. Thomas; 2. The context of North Town Belinda Treviño Schouten and Erik R. Thomas; 3. Consonantal variables correlated with ethnicity Erik R. Thomas and Janneke Van Hofwegen; 4. Vowels in North Town Erik R. Thomas; 5. Trends from outside Erik R. Thomas; 6. Social evaluation of variables Erik R. Thomas and Belinda Treviño Schouten; 7. Variable (ING) Tyler S. Kendall and Erik R. Thomas; 8. Coronal stop deletion in a rural South Texas community Robert Bayley and Dan Villarreal; 9. Prosody Erik R. Thomas and Tyler S. Kendall; 10. Morphosyntactic variation Erin Callahan; 11. Latino English in new destinations: processes of regionalisation in emerging contact varieties Mary E. Kohn; 12. Mexican American English and dialect genesis Erik R. Thomas.

About the author

Erik R. Thomas is a professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His work focuses on the intersection of sociolinguistics and phonetics, as well as the speech of minorities.

Summary

An intensive overview of Mexican American English, linking it to the speech of other immigrant groups worldwide. This study is of particular interest to students and researchers in linguistics, as it provides insight into language contact, immigrant groups' response to majority cultures, and an analysis of language-transfer effects.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY ERIK R. TH, Erik R. Thomas, Erik R. (North Carolina State University) Thomas
• Assisted by: Erik R. Thomas (Editor), Erik R. (North Carolina State University) Thomas (Editor), Thomas Erik R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107098565
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09856-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Mexico, Sociolinguistics, American English, Dialect, slang & jargon, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Dialect, slang and jargon, Bilingualism and multilingualism