LINGUIST List 23.2449
Wed May 23 2012
Media: Series on US Latino Community English Dialects
Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler
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Date: 23-May-2012
From: Elizabeth Pyatt <ejp10
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Subject: Series on US Latino Community English Dialects
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There's a good 3-part series going on about the new English dialects forming inmany Latino communities and challenges faced by speakers in schools and othervenues.
Parts 1-2 are:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/05/21/born-in-us-but-speaking-with-accent/
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/05/22/educators-struggle-to-teach-students-whose-english-is-infused-with-spanish/
It is from Fox News, but they have some great quotes from Walt Wolfram andCarmen Fought.
Linguistic Field(s):
Sociolinguistics
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