Chicano English
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Chicano English is a distinct, rule-governed variety of American English commonly spoken by Mexican Americans, characterized by unique phonological and syntactic features influenced by Spanish and regional dialects.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English language variety
→
dialect → ethnolect → variety of American English → |
| associatedWithIdentity |
Chicano identity
→
Mexican American identity → |
| canBeSpokenBy |
monolingual English speakers of Mexican American background
→
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| hasAlternativeName |
Mexican American English
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|
| hasFeatureType |
lexical features
→
phonological features → prosodic features → syntactic features → |
| hasKeyResearcher |
Carmen Fought
→
John R. Rickford → Walt Wolfram → |
| hasLexicalFeature |
borrowing of Spanish-origin words
→
code-switching with Spanish for some bilingual speakers → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
influence of Spanish vowel system on English vowels
→
monophthongization of /eɪ/ in some contexts → possible devoicing or weakening of final consonants in some varieties → reduced distinction between /ɪ/ and /iː/ for some speakers → rhotic pronunciation (pronounced /r/ in all positions) for many speakers → |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
occasional calques from Spanish structures
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variable use of past tense and participle morphology in some speakers → variable use of prepositions influenced by Spanish patterns → |
| influencedBy |
Mexican Spanish
→
Spanish → regional American English dialects → |
| isMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
General American English
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|
| isNot |
broken English
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interlanguage → learner English → |
| isRecognizedAs |
legitimate dialect of English
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| isRuleGoverned |
true
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|
| isSociallyStigmatized |
often
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| languageBranch |
Germanic languages
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|
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
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| languageGroup |
English language
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|
| languageSubbranch |
West Germanic languages
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|
| primarilySpokenBy |
Mexican Americans
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|
| spokenByGeneration |
later-generation Mexican Americans
→
second-generation Mexican Americans → third-generation Mexican Americans → |
| spokenIn |
United States
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|
| studiedInField |
applied linguistics
→
sociolinguistics → variationist linguistics → |
| typicalRegion |
American Southwest
→
California → Chicago metropolitan area → Colorado → New Mexico → Texas → other urban centers with large Mexican American populations → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Chicano English
("Mexican American English")
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hasAlternativeName |
|
American English
→
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hasVariant |