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量化西班牙语、英语、

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10.1075/cilt.272.05car

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2005

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P. Carter

尽管在变分主义传统中工作的社会语言学家对美国英语和西班牙语变体之间的相互作用越来越感兴趣，但绝大多数研究要么是定性的，要么集中在音段结构的适应上。因此，严格的，定量分析的超音段特征，从西班牙语-英语接触的情况下，在很大程度上是代表性不足的变异文学。再加上西部、西南部和主要城市中心（如纽约和费城）受到了大部分关注，这使得大西洋中部南部的西班牙裔社区基本上没有受到审查，那里的核心西班牙裔社区刚刚开始发展。在过去的十年中，北卡罗来纳州的西班牙裔人口增长率高于其他任何一个州，目前在美国任何一个州中，单语西班牙语人口的比例最高。在某种程度上，这些有些令人惊讶的统计数据是十年前北卡罗来纳州西班牙裔代表性有限的一个函数，但它也证明了21世纪初大西洋中部南部语言状况的人口统计变化。北卡罗来纳州目前的语言状况提供了一个独特的机会，检查西班牙语和英语接触的最早阶段，几乎每一个层次的语言频谱，包括韵律的水平，更具体地说，节奏。这种情况引起了一些重要的研究问题。第一，母语为英语的人的节奏是否可以在童年以后被移民的西班牙语使用者所掌握，或者L1和L2之间的节奏差异是否太大而无法克服？讲西班牙语的移民有多快就学会了邻近的讲英语的社区的无标记的、类似本地人的节奏？西班牙语的节奏在多大程度上为新兴的英语方言提供了基础影响，

Although sociolinguists working within the variationist tradition have become increasingly interested in the interactions between varieties of English and Spanish spoken in the United States, the overwhelming majority of studies have been either qualitatively based, or focused on the adaptation of segmental structures. Accordingly, rigorous, quantitative analyses of suprasegmental features from Spanish-English contact situations are largely underrepresented in the variationist literature. This, coupled with the fact that the West, Southwest, and major urban centers such as New York and Philadelphia have received most of the attention, has left emerging Spanish-English contact situations essentially unexamined in the Mid-Atlantic South, where core Hispanic communities are just now beginning to develop. In the past decade, North Carolina has witnessed a higher percentage of growth in its Hispanic population than any other state, and currently has the largest percentage of monolingual Spanish speakers of any state in the US. In part, these somewhat surprising statistics are a function of the limited representation of Hispanics in North Carolina a decade ago, but it is also a testament to the changing demographics of the linguistic situation in the Mid-Atlantic South at the beginning of the twenty-first century. North Carolina’s current linguistic situation provides a unique opportunity to examine the earliest stages of Spanish-English contact at nearly every level of the linguistic spectrum including the level of prosody and, more specifically, rhythm. This situation gives rise to a number of important research questions. First, is the rhythm associated with native English-speakers attainable to immigrant Spanish-speakers beyond childhood, or are the rhythmic differences between L1 and L2 too vast to overcome? How rapidly do Spanish-speaking immigrants acquire the unmarked, native-like rhythm of the contiguous English-speaking community? To what extent does the rhythm of Spanish provide substrate influence for the emerging dialects of English spoken by

Quantifying Rhythmic Differences between Spanish, English, & Hispanic English

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