Regional variability and ethnic identity: Chinese Americans in New York City and San Francisco

Wong, Amy Wing-mei; Hall‐Lew, Lauren

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2013.11.003

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“…Other studies used qualitative designs (interview; Leung, 2014; Wang, Capous, Koh, & Hou, 2014) or mixed methods (C. E. Kim & Pyun, 2014; A. W.-m. Wong & Hall-Lew, 2014).…”

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Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

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Hou³

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Asian American Journal of Psychology

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This 2014 review of Asian American psychology is the sixth review in the series. It includes 316 articles that met the inclusion criteria established by the past five annual reviews. Featured articles were derived from three sources: 137 were generated via the search term “Asian American” in PyscINFO, 111 were generated via a search for specific Asian American ethnic groups, and 32 were generated via author searches of articles that met the inclusion criteria. The top primary topic was health and health-related behaviors, the most frequently employed study design was cross-sectional, and the most studied Asian American ethnic group was Chinese. This year’s review includes information on the target population of the primary topic, the age range and developmental period of participants, and whether the study design was cross-sectional or longitudinal. It also identifies top authors and journals contributing to the 2014 annual review. These new features reveal that the most common target population of the primary topic was youths; studies most commonly included emerging adults ages 18–25; cross-sectional study design was employed more often than longitudinal design; the top contributor to the 2014 review was Stephen Chen, who authored the highest number of papers included; and the Asian American Journal of Psychology generated the highest number of publications for this review.

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“…Other studies used qualitative designs (interview; Leung, 2014; Wang, Capous, Koh, & Hou, 2014) or mixed methods (C. E. Kim & Pyun, 2014; A. W.-m. Wong & Hall-Lew, 2014).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…E. Kim & Pyun, 2014; Leung, 2014), and English pronunciation (Jin & Liu, 2014; Liu, Jin, & Chen, 2014; A. W.-m. Wong & Hall-Lew, 2014).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

Kim¹,

Shen²,

Hou³

et al. 2015

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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“…While there is little to no evidence of a new variety of Asian English in North America (Bucholtz, 2004;Wong and Hall-Lew, 2014), one of the main arguments against such a new variety relates to the heterogeneous nature of Asian American communities. Given that the majority of Asian population in the Vancouver Metro area is Chinese Canadian, such an argument is unsatisfactory.…”

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Expectations and speech intelligibility

Babel

Russell

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations that particular populations speak in a certain speech style can, however, make it such that socio-indexical cues have a cost. In this study, native speakers of Canadian English who identify as Chinese Canadian and White Canadian read sentences that were presented to listeners in noise. Half of the sentences were presented with a visual-prime in the form of a photo of the speaker and half were presented in control trials with fixation crosses. Sentences produced by Chinese Canadians showed an intelligibility cost in the face-prime condition, whereas sentences produced by White Canadians did not. In an accentedness rating task, listeners rated White Canadians as less accented in the face-prime trials, but Chinese Canadians showed no such change in perceived accentedness. These results suggest a misalignment between an expected and an observed speech signal for the face-prime trials, which indicates that social information about a speaker can trigger linguistic associations that come with processing benefits and costs.

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“…Our first example comes from work on a sociophonetic study of a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California (Hall‐Lew , ; Wong and Hall‐Lew ). Recordings with residents of that neighborhood, the Sunset District, comprise a corpus currently under construction, the Sunset Corpus (Hall‐Lew ).…”

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“…Reyes and Lo ). For example, as far as we are aware, there are only a relative handful of quantitative sociophonetic studies that explicitly examine the use of regional phonological/phonetic features by American‐born individuals of Asian heritage, and most of these consider only East Asian heritage groups (Mendoza‐Denton and Iwai ; Lee ; Wong ; Hall‐Lew ; Becker ; Ito ; Wong ; Kaiser ; Newman and Wu ; Wong ; Hall‐Lew ; Wong and Hall‐Lew ). Related work in linguistic anthropology has contributed to the breadth of heritage ethnicities represented in sociolinguistics more broadly, with a particular focus on communities of South and Southeast Asian Americans (e.g., Reyes , ; Shankar ; Bucholtz [2004]; Shankar ).…”

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Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora: Asian American Ethnic Identities

Hall‐Lew

Wong

2014

Language and Linguist. Compass

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A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open‐source data sharing and cross‐study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora that are annotated for the ethnic identity of a speaker. We specifically problematize the macro‐social label ‘Asian American’ and propose that researchers should consider different levels and types of specificity of ‘Asianness’ in order to ensure that the corpora best represent the reality of ethnic identity in the community sampled. This is particularly important given the limited incorporation of different Asian groups in most existing linguistic research). We argue that more rigorous coding for Asian American ethnicities in corpora will improve the utility of archived corpora and enhance sociolinguistic research on language variation and ethnic identity.

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Regional variability and ethnic identity: Chinese Americans in New York City and San Francisco

Cited by 70 publications

References 34 publications

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

Expectations and speech intelligibility

Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora: Asian American Ethnic Identities

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