East Los Angeles, California, USA
Abstract
This chapter discusses various accents of California, offering information about the cultural context surrounding the location, as well as details about the unique sampling of idiolects collected. The accent breakdown offered analyzes the oral posture patterns of our interviewees as they speak English and Spanish; the phonetic realization of key sounds in English and Spanish; and the prosodic features present in the speaker’s use of English and Spanish. The chapter closes with an offering of where this accent may be found in media and key performance notes to help the reader ground more fully into their accent performance.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 177–194
- Publication date
- 10 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter