Phillip M. Carter is a sociolinguist and scholar of language and culture in U.S. Latino communities. He works interdisciplinarily, moving between quantitative and qualitative approaches to sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnography, and critical theory. His scholarship addresses a range of issues of contemporary concern, including the relationship between social formations and linguistic variation, Spanish language change in the U.S., maintenance and shift of Spanish in the U.S., and popular discourses about language. In collaboration with Andrew Lynch (University of Miami), Carter's most recent work studies the implicit and explicit perceptions of Spanish and English among Latino and non-Latino residents of Miami. He has authored and co-authored numerous chapters in books and papers in leading international journals, such as _Journal of Sociolinguistics_ and _English World Wide_. Carter is also the co-author of _Languages of the World: An Introduction through Culture and History_ with Julie Tetel Andressen, due in early 2014.
Language in U.S. Latino Speech Communities (Latino Englishes)
Shared Spaces, Shared Structures: Latino Social Formation and African American English in the U.S. South, Journal of Sociolinguistics (2013)
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English (AAE) by adolescent...
Phonetic Variation and Speaker Agency: Mexicana Identity in a North Carolina Middle School, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2007)
Prosodic Variation in SLA: Rhythm in an Urban North Carolina Hispanic Community., Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (2005)
Quantifying Rhythmic Differences between Spanish, English, & Hispanic English, Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (2005)
The present analysis examines the Spanish and English of adolescent bilinguals (L1 Spanish, L2 English)...
Emerging Hispanic English: New Dialect Formation in the American South (with Walt Wolfram and Rebecca Moriello), Journal of Sociolinguistics (2004)
Although stable Hispanic populations have existed in some regions of the United States for centuries,...
Identity, Ideology, & Social Theory
Shared Spaces, Shared Structures: Latino Social Formation and African American English in the U.S. South, Journal of Sociolinguistics (2013)
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English (AAE) by adolescent...
The ‘Spanish as threat’ Ideology and Cultural Aspects of Spanish Attrition. (with Tonya Wolford), Spanish in the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition (2010)
Phonetic Variation and Speaker Agency: Mexicana Identity in a North Carolina Middle School, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2007)
Spanish in the U.S. and Spanish / English Contact
The ‘Spanish as threat’ Ideology and Cultural Aspects of Spanish Attrition. (with Tonya Wolford), Spanish in the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Transition (2010)
Quantifying Rhythmic Differences between Spanish, English, & Hispanic English, Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (2005)
The present analysis examines the Spanish and English of adolescent bilinguals (L1 Spanish, L2 English)...
Prosodic Rhythm
Prosodic Rhythm and African American English (with Erik R. Thomas), English World Wide (2006)
Prosodic rhythm was measured for a sample of 20 African American and 20 European American...
Prosodic Variation in SLA: Rhythm in an Urban North Carolina Hispanic Community., Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (2005)
Quantifying Rhythmic Differences between Spanish, English, & Hispanic English, Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (2005)
The present analysis examines the Spanish and English of adolescent bilinguals (L1 Spanish, L2 English)...