COMM 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cluster Reduction, African American Vernacular English, Consonant Cluster
8 Sep 2020
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Other accent features that are not spanish in origin. Spanish speaker, learning english: vowel prosthesis (process of adding a vowel beforehand) Spanish learner"s english: interchangeable y and j. Chicano english: merger of j and zh. Also, ch and sh - teacher, ship with same sound. Study: detects local anglo accent features in local chicano variety. A feature of many regional varieties inc. ca. Not necessarily a feature of ca chicano english. The film that won the academy award was in korean! = the use of more than one language in a single interaction or utterance. Code switchers switch only with other code switchers. Certain positions within sentence make it more or less possible to switch. Change in code between a and b: Sequence in language a follows rules of language a. Sequences in language b follows rules of language b. Grammar of a with some words of b. A random mixture of words from a and b.
