EnglishToday 100103 Volume 26 Number 3 September 2010

EnglishToday The International Review of the English Language

The social and linguistic status of second generationers in the U.S. and Canada • New York City English and second generation Chinese Americans • Influence of American English on second generation Lao immigrant speakers • Arab Americans and sound change in southeastern Michigan • Second generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City • Language as a representation of Mexican American identity • Puerto Ricans in the United States and language shift to English

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ET103 Volume 26 Number 3 September 2010

2 Comment: Hearing the voice of a new generation

3 New York City English and second generation Chinese Americans AMY WING-MEI WONG

12 Beyond the 2nd generation: English use among Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area LAUREN HALL-LEW AND REBECCA L. STARR

20 Influence of American English on second generation Lao immigrant speakers VINCENT CHANETHOM

27 Arab Americans and sound change in southeastern Michigan SAI SAMANT

35 Second generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City RENEE BLAKE AND CARA SHOUSTERMAN

44 Language as a representation of Mexican American identity CARMEN FOUGHT

49 Puerto Ricans in the United States and language shift to English LOURDES TORRES

55 ‘It’s so cute how they talk’: Stylized Italian English as sociolinguistic maintenance LISA M. DEL TORTO

63 Review: English in China Today KINGSLEY BOLTON

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