Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Major/Program
Linguistics
First Advisor's Name
Phillip M. Carter
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Melissa Baralt
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Third Advisor's Name
Melissa Baralt
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Keywords
anthropology, linguistics, sociology
Date of Defense
3-20-2015
Abstract
In this paper, I present preliminary findings of the first-large scale, systematic study of English Latino vowels in Miami. Sociolinguistic interviews were conducted with 25 Miami-born participants: 10 Anglo Whites and 15 Latinos with varying degrees of Spanish fluency. Here I focus on the vowel quality (/i, ɪ, ai, æ, ɔ, u /) in the speech of the 2nd and 3rd generations to examine the nature of influence of Spanish on English in Miami over the past 60 years. I conduct an in-depth analysis of the vowel productions of two female speakers, Maria & Blaze, to show the range of vowel productions in Miami Latino English. The vocalic analysis is comprised of a minimum of 15 non-repeating tokens of each vowel. These vowels were extracted from interview data and analyzed for F1, F2, and F3 values using PRAAT. Two allophones of /æ/ were considered: pre-nasal and pre-non-nasal, since Latinos in other regions have shown to resist pre-nasal /æ/ raising (Thomas 2001).
Identifier
FI15032189
Recommended Citation
Lopez, Lydda, "Vowels in the 305: A First Pass at Miami Latino English" (2015). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1797.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1797
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