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Phonetic simplification processes in the English of the Barrio : = A cross-generational sociolinguistic study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles.

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Title/Author:	Phonetic simplification processes in the English of the Barrio :/
Reminder of title:	A cross-generational sociolinguistic study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles.
Author:	Santa Ana A., Otto.
Description:	1 online resource (262 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International53-05A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9798209291626

Phonetic simplification processes in the English of the Barrio : = A cross-generational sociolinguistic study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles.
Santa Ana A., Otto.

Phonetic simplification processes in the English of the Barrio :A cross-generational sociolinguistic study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles. - 1 online resource (262 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references

I investigate the phonetic realization of syllable structure in Chicano English (=ChE) to characterize its status as a language contact dialect, its relation to the target language, and the changes it undergoes. I study two simplification processes, one consonantal and one vocalic, in the vernacular of a balanced sample of forty-five adult Chicanos (=Mexican-Americans), non-native and native speakers, across five generations using methods of empirical linguistics. A well-studied sociolinguistic variable, /-t,d/ deletion, serves to linguistically situate ChE in the absence of a description of the matrix dialect. When compared to a cross-dialectal characterization of the variable, I find differences in ChE. I discover no cross-generational changes, or convergence in the constraints of /-t,d/ deletion (including non-native speaking immigrants); although one morphological change is attributed to differences in language use of two age-groups. Increased deletion is correlated both with: greater sonority in the preceding segment; and lower sonority in the following segment. I attribute the latter findings to specific aspects of English syllable structure. The less-studied variable, in sociolinguistic terms, is unstressed vowel reduction. Spanish, the substrate, has no vowel reduction while English does, so I investigate how ChE develops vowel reduction. Formant frequency measurements are made of stressed and unstressed vowels for four speakers. I find that Euro-American vowel reduction is not 'acquired' by ChE native speakers. Neither generation, language use at home, bilingualism versus monolingualism, or any linguistic factor plays a developmental role. Rather, a distinctive ChE pattern is found: mid vowels reduce while mid vowels do not reduce. When a fifth speaker is considered, a regular progression is tentatively suggested: vowel reduction develops in proportion to the amount of exposure to matrix dialect speakers. I did not consistently find native speaker resolution of interference-type confusions in speech of the non-native speaker. The dialect's distinctive constraints on the simplification processes are shared by non-native and monolingual native speakers alike; generation is not significant. In a sense, the contact dialect establishes its characteristics before it has native speakers. Accommodation to the matrix dialect is an independent social process that involves the nature of contact between dialects.

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ISBN: 9798209291626Subjects--Topical Terms:

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