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Two Vernacular Features in the English of Four American-Born Chinese Amy Wong New York University
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarlyCommons@Penn University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 13 2007 Article 17 Issue 2 Selected Papers from NWAV 35 10-1-2007 Two Vernacular Features in the English of Four American-born Chinese Amy Wong New York University This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol13/iss2/17 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Two Vernacular Features in the English of Four American-born Chinese This conference paper is available in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/ vol13/iss2/17 Two Vernacular Features in the English of Four American-Born Chinese in New York City* Amy Wong 1 Introduction Variationist sociolinguistics has largely overlooked the English of Chinese Americans, sometimes because many of them spoke English non-natively. However, the number of Chinese immigrants has grown over the last 40 years, in part as a consequence of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that repealed the severe immigration restrictions established by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act (García 1997). The 1965 act led to an increase in the number of America Born Chinese (ABC) who, as a result of being immersed in the American educational system that “urges inevitable shift to English” (Wong 1988:109), have grown up speaking English natively. Tsang and Wing even assert that “the English verbal performance of native-born Chinese Americans is no different from that of whites” (1985:12, cited in Wong 1988:210), an assertion that requires closer examination. -
Ethnolect, Dialect, and Linguistic Repertoire in New York City Kara Becker
Ethnolect, dialect, and linguistic repertoire in New York City Kara Becker Introduction One way to conceptualize the ethnolect is to look beyond the fixed category when considering the role of ethnicity in speaker production. This paper adopts a linguistic repertoire approach (Gumperz 1964, Benor 2010) to investigate the identity construction of one speaker who utilizes a diverse set of linguistic resources on the Lower East Side of New York City. Highlighting features that are commonly bounded as ethnolectal (copula absence as a feature of African American English (AAE)), dialectal (BOUGHT-raising as a feature of New York City English (NYCE)), or potentially either (non-rhoticity in the syllable coda, a feature associate with both AAE and NYCE) demonstrates the limitations of bounded categories like ethnolect and dialect in capturing the complexities of speaker practice. The traditional sociolinguistic approach to descriptions of African American speakers in New York City (c.f. Labov 1972a) and elsewhere in North America has been either to consider them primarily as speakers of an ethnolect (AAE), or to investigate the extent to which they assimilate to the local white norm (NYCE). A linguistic repertoire approach, in contrast, does not take a position on a speaker’s underlying linguistic variety, but allows for more fluidity between bounded –lects. The present analysis draws heavily from Benor’s (2010) notion of the ethnolinguistic repertoire, and expands on this approach by looking at how a speaker constructs not only ethnic identity but other aspects of a multivalent identity (Mendoza Denton 2002). Two aspects of speaker identity – ethnicity and locality – are highlighted here to demonstrate how a repertoire approach can reinforce efforts towards a more nuanced analysis of ethnolects and dialects in sociolinguistic research (Yeager-Dror and Thomas 2010). -
Making Sense of "Bad English"
MAKING SENSE OF “BAD ENGLISH” Why is it that some ways of using English are considered “good” and others are considered “bad”? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent, or refined, whereas others are deemed uneducated, coarse, or inappropriate? Making Sense of “Bad English” is an accessible introduction to attitudes and ideologies towards the use of English in different settings around the world. Outlining how perceptions about what constitutes “good” and “bad” English have been shaped, this book shows how these principles are based on social factors rather than linguistic issues and highlights some of the real-life consequences of these perceptions. Features include: • an overview of attitudes towards English and how they came about, as well as real-life consequences and benefits of using “bad” English; • explicit links between different English language systems, including child’s English, English as a lingua franca, African American English, Singlish, and New Delhi English; • examples taken from classic names in the field of sociolinguistics, including Labov, Trudgill, Baugh, and Lambert, as well as rising stars and more recent cutting-edge research; • links to relevant social parallels, including cultural outputs such as holiday myths, to help readers engage in a new way with the notion of Standard English; • supporting online material for students which features worksheets, links to audio and news files, further examples and discussion questions, and background on key issues from the book. Making Sense of “Bad English” provides an engaging and thought-provoking overview of this topic and is essential reading for any student studying sociolinguistics within a global setting. -
New York City
Report 2018 REgional Impact: NEW YORK CITY Real estate insights from top investment professionals SPONSORED BY © 2018 Privcap LLC REgional Impact: NYC New Markets New York, New Markets New York City is the biggest collection of villages in the “The new joke is that kids are still living world, but investors are with their parents on the Upper East Side in increasingly turning to the order to save money for Brooklyn,” Warren outer boroughs of Brooklyn, says, highlighting increased migration to areas such as Williamsburg, Park Slope, Queens, the Bronx—and even Cobble Hill, Astoria, and Long Island City, northern New Jersey. and increased prices as a result. “A recent luxury multifamily project we New York City itself is one of the largest financed in Brooklyn is achieving rents investable commercial real estate markets competitive with Class A Manhattan rents,” in the world, yet there are many opportu- adds Warren. nities to be found in outer boroughs. It’s a sentiment shared by Brodie Ruland, “Places such as Williamsburg are no longer senior vice president and Northeast just about price and affordability, they are region head of investments for ASB Real about lifestyle,” says Marc Warren, principal Estate Investments, who says the shift of the capital advisory firm Ackman-Ziff. to New York’s outer boroughs is not just a trend for the multifamily sector, but With an office market alone valued at across all property types as corporations $107 billion and measuring 450msf in size, follow the customer. Manhattan will, of course, always capture a significant portion of the global institu- Between 2014 and 2016, ASB, in partner- tional equity targeting the metropolitan ship with L3 Capital, paid $104 million to area of New York. -
Enhancement of New York Harbor Estuaries and Ecological Systems Proposals for Environmental Restoration
ENHANCEMENT OF NEW YORK HARBOR ESTUARIES AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION CUISD HONORABLE MENTION SUBMISSION TO AN OPEN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION TO ENVISION WATER AS THE THE SIXTH BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY MAY, 2011 Institute for Sustainable Design The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art PREPARED BY Cooper Square New York, NY 10003-7120 THE COOPER UNION INSTITUTE www.cooper.edu/isd FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN 2 3 ENHANCEMENT OF NEW YORK HARBOR ESTUARIES AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION OPEN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION TO ENVISION WATER AS THE THE SIXTH BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY MAY, 2011 PREPARED BY THE COOPER UNION INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN INTRODUCTION ENHANCEMENT OF NEW YORK HARBOR THE DEMANDS TO BE MET ESTUARIES AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ARE MANY: To transform the harbor and estuaries to meet the 1. Rising sea levels, temperature rise and increasing changing demands of the coming decades and to offer a storm intensity due to climate change richer and more ecologically integrated urban environment 2. More robust storm surges and coastal flood potential will require planning approaches that employ various 3. Increased population in NYC needing the benefits of strategies and support interventions at multiple scales. natural systems. 4. Increased need for soft path servicing, ecological Navigational Dredging Policy should be made to concentrate treatment of wastewater and passive water quality maritime industry and shipping at critical zones. The overall improvement methods. amount of channelization should be reduced to support functioning 5. Need for increased natural bio-diversity and re- navigational routes and maintain active berths (with an allowance establishment of wetland habitats. -
Brooklyn Staten Island Queens Manhattan Bronx
2011 ONE PRIZE: NYC 6 BORO projection Clean Tech Blue Network & Clean Tech Master Plan Blue Network Hub Not only does each Blue Network Hub serve as a stop for electric passenger Site Reflective Piers The existing grid of New York City is projected out onto the water through the establishment of the ferries and water taxis, but each location is also connected through a rapid Primary Ferry Route modular pier system. This projection serves as a physical extension of the grid as well as a visual transit lane for electric shuttle buses and electric cars. Each Hub is equipped extension of the city’s identity into its 6th borough, the water. Secondary Ferry Route with several charging stations for electric cars, as well as bike shares, bike city Bicycle Monorail garages and access to the bicyle monorails. Parks, Habitat, Wetland Green Transit Hubs attract individuals out to, and beyond, the water’s edge through the use of varying degrees of transportation. These include electric passenger ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car shares, electric shuttle buses, and bicycle monorail. ic ca ctr r c e it self l y Bronx e Sound View Park The interactive pier system integrated into each Blue Network Transit Hub and Barretto Point Park Clean Tech Expo location encourage participants to interact with one another collective while partaking in the activities and exhibits that each site has to offer. Randalls Island Park Harlem River The new pier system provides additional habitat for existing ecosystems, allowing for the Goodwill Park future projection of wildlife and vegetation. -
The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 5-2018 The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English Giacomo Castronovo Jr. The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2654 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF THREE FEATURES OF NEW YORK CITY ENGLISH by GIACOMO CASTRONOVO JR. A master’s thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The City University of New York 2018 © 2018 GIACOMO CASTRONOVO All Rights Reserved ii The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English by Giacomo Castronovo Jr. This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Linguistics in satisfaction of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts. Date Michael Newman Thesis Advisor Date Gita Martohardjono Executive Officer THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English by Giacomo Castronovo Jr. Advisor: Michael Newman Since the late 19th Century, the accent particular to New Yorker City natives of European descent has been negatively perceived by both the American general public and the speakers themselves. The stereotypification of New York City English speakers has largely been the cause of this negative evaluation, in that the features of the accent, as well as the unique New York discourse style, have long been utilized by actors and comedians to create characters of uneducated, uncultured provenance, as well as, all too often, unscrupulous behavior. -
Lots of Thoughts on the Endangered Palms of New York
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 22 Issue 2 Selected Papers from New Ways of Article 15 Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44) 12-2016 LOTs of THOUGHTs on the Endangered PALMs of New York Michael Newman Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl Recommended Citation Newman, Michael (2016) "LOTs of THOUGHTs on the Endangered PALMs of New York," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 22 : Iss. 2 , Article 15. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol22/iss2/15 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol22/iss2/15 For more information, please contact [email protected]. LOTs of THOUGHTs on the Endangered PALMs of New York Abstract Prior determination of the vowels instantiated by tokens is needed to be able to reliably to plot those vowels. Consequently, investigation of variation and change involving the New York City English (NYCE) low-back vowel system encounters an obstacle in the difficulty in assigning some words to the LOT versus PALM classes given reports of interspeaker variation between them (see e.g., Labov, Ash and Boberg 2006) and their proximity in vowel space. It is sometimes unclear which vowel class tokens should be assigned to. This study addresses that problem by the employment of hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to propose the needed token vowel assignments. This statistical technique was applied to the low back vowels derived from a read-aloud task given to eleven White New Yorkers, the group for whom the greatest variation has been reported. HCA appears ideally suited to the task because it groups items by similarity defined in terms of proximity in Euclidean distance just as in a vowel chart. -
Spotlight on “Long-Term English Language Learners”: Characteristics and Prior Schooling Experiences of an Invisible Population
International Multilingual Research Journal,6:121–142,2012 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1931-3152 print / 1931-3160 online DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2012.665822 Spotlight on “Long-Term English Language Learners”: Characteristics and Prior Schooling Experiences of an Invisible Population Kate Menken Department of Linguistics Queens College & Graduate Center City University of New York Tatyana Kleyn Bilingual Education TESOL Program City College of New York Nabin Chae Center for Urban Education Graduate Center City College of New York This article presents qualitative research findings about the characteristics and prior schooling experiences of “long-term English language learners” (LTELLs), who have attended U.S. schools for 7 years or more, and about whom there is little empirical research, despite their significant num- bers. Findings indicate that these students are orally bilingual for social purposes, yet have limited academic literacy skills in English and their native languages as a result of subtractive prior school- ing experiences. Two main groups of LTELLs are identified: (a) students with inconsistent U.S. Downloaded by [Ms Kate Menken] at 13:18 08 October 2012 schooling, who have shifted between bilingual education, English as a second language, and main- stream classrooms with no language support programming, and (b) transnational students, who have moved back and forth between the United States and their family’s country of origin. It is argued that programming for LTELLs in high school must be distinctive, and recommendations for policy and practice are outlined. Keywords: emergent bilinguals, English language learners, Generation 1.5, long-term English language learners, secondary school Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kate Menken, Department of Linguistics, Queens College & Graduate Center, City University of New York, LCD-Linguistics-KS 349, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, New York, NY 11367. -
Sociophonetic Variation, Orientation and Topic in County Durham
Sociophonetic Variation, Orientation and Topic in County Durham Thomas Patrick Devlin PhD University of York Language and Linguistic Science September 2014 Abstract This thesis presents a sociophonetic study of four villages in County Durham which have not previously been explored in sociolinguistic literature. As well as examining socially- conditioned phonological variation across the villages, the study analyses the linguistic relationship between the research site and two larger localities with their own urban varieties of English, which are situated at either side of the research area: the city of Sunderland to the north and the Teesside conurbation to the south. The study examines phonological variability in the linguistic production of a socially-homogeneous group of thirty-two speakers, split equally across the four villages and stratified by emically-defined age groups. More than 6500 tokens of the MOUTH, FACE, GOAT and START variables (following Wells’ 1982 method of classifying sets of vowels) are analysed from recorded sociolinguistic interviews with informants. The findings are compared to previous sociolinguistic investigations of other varieties of North East English in terms of the levelling of variants local to the area. The established methodological comparison of read speech and conversational styles is complemented by detailed investigation of the conversational topic in which the production occurs, and its effect on phonological variation. An Identity Questionnaire (pioneered by Llamas 2001) explores identity construction in County Durham and how this is shaped by local speech patterns. This is achieved by surveying speakers’ individual attitudes and perceptions about their local area and accents. The correlation of this language ideology data and speakers’ actual linguistic performance allows the study to assess the role orientation plays in variant usage. -
A NEW LEAF Revitalizing New York City’S Aging Parks Infrastructure
nycfuture.org JUNE 2018 A NEW LEAF Revitalizing New York City’s Aging Parks Infrastructure A New Leaf 1 A NEW LEAF is a publication of the Center for an Urban Future. Researched and written by John Surico. Edited by Eli Dvorkin and Jonathan Bowles. Additional research by Sheila TABLE OF CONTENTS Binesh, Myles Bonadie, Gail Hankin, Julia Hotz, Nicholas Hoynes, Leah Jacobson, Elsa Van Latum, Alexa Schatzmann, Naomi Sharp, Rania Siddique, Katherine Surko, Shiming INTRODUCTION 3 Xiong, and Luke Zangerle. Designed by Rob Chabebe. KEY FINDINGS This study was made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE 14 DRAINAGE SYSTEMS The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants in the areas RETAINING WALLS of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $2.5 billion, WATERFRONT FACILITIES through more than 4,000 grants to nonprofit organizations in 124 nations around the world. PATHWAYS 18 The SNF funds organizations and projects, worldwide, that aim to BRIDGES achieve a broad, lasting and positive impact, for society at large, and STAIRS exhibit strong leadership and sound management. The Foundation also supports projects that facilitate the formation of public-private STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND PATHS partnerships as an effective means for serving public welfare. BUILT FACILITIES 22 COMFORT STATIONS PLAYGROUNDS Center for an Urban Future (CUF) is a leading New York City– based think tank that generates smart and sustainable public LANDSCAPE 25 policies to reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and HORTICULTURE grow the economy. -
Impact of Escalating Literacy Demands on English Learners with Hearing Loss
Top Lang Disorders Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 171–193 Copyright c 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Impact of Escalating Literacy Demands on English Learners With Hearing Loss Linda I. Rosa-Lugo and Barbara J. Ehren Gainful employment for adults in the United States currently requires high levels of literacy. As challenging as these requirements may be for the workforce at large, for adults who have a hearing loss (HL) and whose first spoken language is not English, the demands are especially problematic. Therefore, it is critical that educators prepare English learner (EL) K-12 students with HL for life beyond school by understanding and addressing the underlying language of curriculum. The authors explore the escalating literacy demands of the workforce and the corresponding spoken and written language demands of more rigorous K-12 curriculum standards. They highlight the specific challenges of EL children and adolescents with HL who are acquiring English as a second spoken language. They make the case for a more robust collaborative approach, involving multiple perspectives, rather than “teamwork,” in addressing the needs of these students across the grades, with intercultural competence as a major component in engaging families as partners. Key words: children and adolescents with hearing loss, collaboration in education, Common Core State Standards and D/HH, ELs with hearing loss, listening and spoken language in D/HH, literacy acquisition in D/HH, workforce literacy HE GOAL of preparing graduates of Amer- have a hearing loss (HL) and those with T ica’s public schools to be college and hearing who are English learners (ELs).