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Phillip M. Carter
Researcher at Florida International University
Publications - 24
Citations - 526
Phillip M. Carter is an academic researcher from Florida International University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Miami & Sociolinguistics. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications receiving 473 citations. Previous affiliations of Phillip M. Carter include North Carolina State University & University of Pennsylvania.
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Emerging Hispanic English: New dialect formation in the American South
TL;DR: The authors examined the dynamics of new dialect formation in progress, and the extent to which speakers acquire local dialect traits as they learn English as a second language (EASL) and found that there is not pervasive accommodation to the local norm by Hispanic speakers learning English.
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Prosodic rhythm and African American English
Erik R. Thomas,Phillip M. Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured prosodic rhythm 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.
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National narratives, institutional ideologies, and local talk: The discursive production of Spanish in a “new” US Latino community
TL;DR: The authors 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.
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Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics: Mapping the Linguistic Turn in Social Theory
TL;DR: It is contended that poststructuralist approaches to social theory are useful for sociolinguists, especially variationists, in that they resist the false dichotomy between agency and structure and provide a comprehensive way of thinking about identity that ignores neither practice nor subjectivity.
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Multilingual Miami: Current Trends in Sociolinguistic Research
Phillip M. Carter,Andrew Lynch +1 more
TL;DR: This paper discusses current trends in sociolinguistic work focusing on language in metropolitan Miami, an area it is contended is underrepresented in the sociol linguistics literature given the unique contact situation that has arisen there during the past half century.