Phillip M Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip M Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip M |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unidirectional language bias
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Automatic preferences and implicit biases toward Spanish and English in the context of Miami are tested. We investigate whether implicit language bias is conditioned by social factors (i.e., ethnicity, gender, first language) as well as different linguistic stimuli (orthographic vs oral/aural). Design/methodology/approach: Three Implicit Association Test (IAT) experiments were designed and implement…
Language in U.S. Latinx Communities
Research Article| December 01 2023 3. Language in U.S. Latinx Communities Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter phillip carter is professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University. He is coauthor of Languages in the World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language (with Julie Tetel Andersen; Wiley Blackwell, 2016) and author of dozens of articles and chapters addressing the politics, perceptions, and structural aspec…
Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English
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 experiment (acceptability task) conducted with Miami-based raters and raters from a national audience using Mechanical Turk, and (3) calques and related lexic…
Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Research Article| August 01 2023 Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter Florida International University phillip m. carter is Professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is also director of the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment. Carter is author of dozens of articles on topics related to language diversity in the United States, bilingualism and …
New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-b…
Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami
A Volume for Our Times
Book Review| May 01 2019 A Volume for Our Times Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race Edited by Alim, H. Samy; Rickford, John R.; Ball, Arnetha F.New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 362. ISBN 9780190625696; $35.95 (ebk $24.99) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Florida International University PHILLIP M. carter is associate professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is a…
Grammatical change in borderlands Spanish
This study investigates variation in the grammatical system of Spanish in the speech of three generations of Mexican Americans living in a community in South Texas, United States, characterized by high levels of bilingualism and long-term, sustained contact between languages. Two variables are studied using quantitative methods: (1) the extension of the copula verb estar into domains traditionally confined to ser and (2) the expansion of progress…
The social meaning of Spanish in Miami
Cross-generational prosodic convergence in South Texas Spanish
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. Low and Grabe’s (1995) Pairwise Variability Index was used to quantify prosodic rhythm in the Spanish and the English of community members across gene…
Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context
Review Article| May 01 2015 Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (2): 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Phillip M. Carter; Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context. American Speech 1 May 2015; 9…
Multilingual Miami
In this paper, we discuss current trends in sociolinguistic work focusing on language in metropolitan Miami, an area we contend is underrepresented in the sociolinguistics literature given the unique contact situation that has arisen there during the past half century. We focus our attention on four main areas of theoretical and empirical concern: (1) Spanish-English bilingualism, (2) issues related to the varieties of Spanish spoken in Miami, (3…
National narratives, institutional ideologies, and local talk
This study investigates the figuration of “Spanish” as a sociocultural discourse within the context of a middle school in North Carolina, where immigration from Latin America is new, yet quickly accelerating. The school-based discourse is analyzed in terms of everyday ways of talking among students, as well as institutional ideologies and practices, which mediate national discourses about US Latinos and reinforce tropes circulated by students. Ev…
Shared spaces, shared structures
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English ( AAE ) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be , copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular – s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity i…
Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics
Poststructuralist theory has been broadly influential throughout the humanities and social sciences for two decades, yet sociolinguistic engagement with poststructuralism has been limited to select subfields. In this paper, I consider the possibilities for richer cross-disciplinary work involving sociolinguistics and poststructuralist social theory. I begin by describing the place of social theory within sociolinguistics, paying attention both to…
A Treatise on “Multiculturalism” and Education
Review Article| May 01 2011 A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND Education:language Diversity in the Classroom A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND EDUCATION: Language Diversity in the Classroom By Edwards, JohnBristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. iv + 338. ISBN: 978-1-84769-226-9; $129.95 (pbk $49.95) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 259–263. h…
Prosodic rhythm and African American English
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 same technique was applied to the ex-slave recordings described in Bailey, Maynor and Cukor-Avila (1991) and to recordings of five Southern European Ame…
Prosodic rhythm and African American English
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 same technique was applied to the ex-slave recordings described in Bailey, Maynor and Cukor-Avila (1991) and to recordings of five Southern European Ame…
New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-b…
The social meaning of Spanish in Miami
Shared spaces, shared structures
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English ( AAE ) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be , copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular – s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity i…
Multilingual Miami
In this paper, we discuss current trends in sociolinguistic work focusing on language in metropolitan Miami, an area we contend is underrepresented in the sociolinguistics literature given the unique contact situation that has arisen there during the past half century. We focus our attention on four main areas of theoretical and empirical concern: (1) Spanish-English bilingualism, (2) issues related to the varieties of Spanish spoken in Miami, (3…
Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami
National narratives, institutional ideologies, and local talk
This study investigates the figuration of “Spanish” as a sociocultural discourse within the context of a middle school in North Carolina, where immigration from Latin America is new, yet quickly accelerating. The school-based discourse is analyzed in terms of everyday ways of talking among students, as well as institutional ideologies and practices, which mediate national discourses about US Latinos and reinforce tropes circulated by students. Ev…
Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics
Poststructuralist theory has been broadly influential throughout the humanities and social sciences for two decades, yet sociolinguistic engagement with poststructuralism has been limited to select subfields. In this paper, I consider the possibilities for richer cross-disciplinary work involving sociolinguistics and poststructuralist social theory. I begin by describing the place of social theory within sociolinguistics, paying attention both to…
Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English
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 experiment (acceptability task) conducted with Miami-based raters and raters from a national audience using Mechanical Turk, and (3) calques and related lexic…
Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Research Article| August 01 2023 Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter Florida International University phillip m. carter is Professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is also director of the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment. Carter is author of dozens of articles on topics related to language diversity in the United States, bilingualism and …
Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context
Review Article| May 01 2015 Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (2): 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Phillip M. Carter; Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context. American Speech 1 May 2015; 9…
Prosodic rhythm and African American English
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 same technique was applied to the ex-slave recordings described in Bailey, Maynor and Cukor-Avila (1991) and to recordings of five Southern European Ame…
A Treatise on “Multiculturalism” and Education
Review Article| May 01 2011 A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND Education:language Diversity in the Classroom A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND EDUCATION: Language Diversity in the Classroom By Edwards, JohnBristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. iv + 338. ISBN: 978-1-84769-226-9; $129.95 (pbk $49.95) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 259–263. h…
Shared spaces, shared structures
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English ( AAE ) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be , copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular – s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity i…
Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics
Poststructuralist theory has been broadly influential throughout the humanities and social sciences for two decades, yet sociolinguistic engagement with poststructuralism has been limited to select subfields. In this paper, I consider the possibilities for richer cross-disciplinary work involving sociolinguistics and poststructuralist social theory. I begin by describing the place of social theory within sociolinguistics, paying attention both to…
National narratives, institutional ideologies, and local talk
This study investigates the figuration of “Spanish” as a sociocultural discourse within the context of a middle school in North Carolina, where immigration from Latin America is new, yet quickly accelerating. The school-based discourse is analyzed in terms of everyday ways of talking among students, as well as institutional ideologies and practices, which mediate national discourses about US Latinos and reinforce tropes circulated by students. Ev…
Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context
Review Article| May 01 2015 Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (2): 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Phillip M. Carter; Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context. American Speech 1 May 2015; 9…
Multilingual Miami
In this paper, we discuss current trends in sociolinguistic work focusing on language in metropolitan Miami, an area we contend is underrepresented in the sociolinguistics literature given the unique contact situation that has arisen there during the past half century. We focus our attention on four main areas of theoretical and empirical concern: (1) Spanish-English bilingualism, (2) issues related to the varieties of Spanish spoken in Miami, (3…
Cross-generational prosodic convergence in South Texas Spanish
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. Low and Grabe’s (1995) Pairwise Variability Index was used to quantify prosodic rhythm in the Spanish and the English of community members across gene…
Grammatical change in borderlands Spanish
This study investigates variation in the grammatical system of Spanish in the speech of three generations of Mexican Americans living in a community in South Texas, United States, characterized by high levels of bilingualism and long-term, sustained contact between languages. Two variables are studied using quantitative methods: (1) the extension of the copula verb estar into domains traditionally confined to ser and (2) the expansion of progress…
The social meaning of Spanish in Miami
Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami
A Volume for Our Times
Book Review| May 01 2019 A Volume for Our Times Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race Edited by Alim, H. Samy; Rickford, John R.; Ball, Arnetha F.New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 362. ISBN 9780190625696; $35.95 (ebk $24.99) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Florida International University PHILLIP M. carter is associate professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is a…
New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-b…
Unidirectional language bias
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Automatic preferences and implicit biases toward Spanish and English in the context of Miami are tested. We investigate whether implicit language bias is conditioned by social factors (i.e., ethnicity, gender, first language) as well as different linguistic stimuli (orthographic vs oral/aural). Design/methodology/approach: Three Implicit Association Test (IAT) experiments were designed and implement…
Language in U.S. Latinx Communities
Research Article| December 01 2023 3. Language in U.S. Latinx Communities Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter phillip carter is professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University. He is coauthor of Languages in the World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language (with Julie Tetel Andersen; Wiley Blackwell, 2016) and author of dozens of articles and chapters addressing the politics, perceptions, and structural aspec…
Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English
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 experiment (acceptability task) conducted with Miami-based raters and raters from a national audience using Mechanical Turk, and (3) calques and related lexic…
Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Research Article| August 01 2023 Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter Florida International University phillip m. carter is Professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is also director of the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment. Carter is author of dozens of articles on topics related to language diversity in the United States, bilingualism and …
Linguistics (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (7 works) · Miami (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · American English (5 works)