Phillip M. Carter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Phillip M. Carter plays a role.
2023 Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English: Tracking production and perception English World-Wide 44:2, pp. 219–250 | Article
This study considers the role of Spanish-to-English calques in a variety of English that has developed alongside Spanish in Miami (U.S.). Data were obtained from three sources: (1) a production experiment (translation task) conducted with two generations of Cuban Americans, (2) a perception… read more
2016 Cross-generational prosodic convergence in South Texas Spanish Spanish in Context 13:1, pp. 29–52 | Article
This study investigates variation in the prosodic system of Spanish in the speech of three generations of Mexican Americans living in a Mexican American-majority community in South Texas, United States, characterized by high levels of bilingualism and long-term, sustained contact between languages.… read more
2006 Prosodic rhythm and African American English English World-Wide 27:3, pp. 331–355 | Article
Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European American speakers from North Carolina using the metric devised by Low, Grabe and Nolan (2000), which involves comparisons of the durations of vowels in adjacent syllables. In order to gain historical perspective, the… read more
2005 Quantifying Rhythmic Differences Between Spanish, English, and Hispanic English Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 63–75 | Article