Editing Miami (section)

===Dialect===
{{Main|Miami accent}}
The Miami area has a unique dialect of [[American English]], commonly called the "[[Miami accent]]", that is widely spoken. The accent developed among second- or third-generation [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics]], including [[Cuban Americans]], whose first language was English. Some [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]], [[black people|black]] and [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|other races]] who were born and raised in the Miami area have tended to adopt it as well.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 27, 2013 |title=Miami Accents: Why Locals Embrace That Heavy "L" Or Not |url=http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-why-locals-embrace-heavy-l-or-not?nopop=1 |access-date=September 1, 2013 |publisher=WLRN ([[WLRN-TV]] and [[WLRN-FM]]) |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006082641/http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-why-locals-embrace-heavy-l-or-not?nopop=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

It is based on a fairly [[General American|standard American accent]] but with some changes, very similar to dialects in the [[Mid-Atlantic (United States)|Mid-Atlantic]], especially those in the [[New York City English|New York area]] and [[New Jersey English|Northern New Jersey]], including [[New York Latino English]]. Unlike [[Piedmont region of Virginia|Virginia Piedmont]], Coastal Southern American, Northeast American dialects and [[Florida Cracker]] dialect, "Miami accent" is [[Rhoticity in English|rhotic]]. It incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish, where rhythm is [[isochrony#syllable timing|syllable-timed]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 13, 2004 |title='Miami Accent' Takes Speakers By Surprise |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-06-13/news/0406130047_1_cuban-accent-spanish-sound |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820020926/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-06-13/news/0406130047_1_cuban-accent-spanish-sound |archive-date=August 20, 2012 |access-date=October 8, 2012 |website=Articles – [[Sun-Sentinel]].com}}</ref>

This is a native dialect of English, not learner English or [[interlanguage]]. It is possible to differentiate this variety from an [[interlanguage]] spoken by second-language speakers, in that the "Miami accent" does ''not'' generally display the following features: there is no [[epenthesis|addition]] of {{IPA|/ɛ/}} before initial consonant clusters with {{IPA|/s/}}, speakers do not confuse {{IPA|/dʒ/}} with {{IPA|/j/}}, (e.g., ''Yale'' with ''jail''), and /r/ and /rr/ are pronounced as [[Alveolar approximant|alveolar approximant <nowiki>[</nowiki>{{IPA|ɹ|cat=no}}<nowiki>]</nowiki>]] instead of [[alveolar tap]] {{IPA|[ɾ]}} or [[alveolar trill]] [r] in Spanish.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 26, 2013 |title=Miami Accents: How 'Miamah' Turned Into A Different Sort Of Twang |url=http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-how-miamah-turned-different-sort-twang |access-date=September 1, 2013 |publisher=WLRN ([[WLRN-TV]] & [[WLRN-FM]]) |archive-date=August 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831034043/http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-how-miamah-turned-different-sort-twang |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Haggin |first=Patience |date=August 27, 2013 |title=Miami Accents: Why Locals Embrace That Heavy "L" Or Not |url=https://y-dc.info/2020/09/17/miami-accents-why-locals-embrace-heavy-l-or-not/ |access-date=August 10, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Watts |first=Gabriella |date=August 26, 2013 |title=Miami Accents: How 'Miamah' Turned Into A Different Sort Of Twang |url=http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-how-miamah-turned-different-sort-twang |access-date=August 10, 2015 |archive-date=August 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831034043/http://wlrn.org/post/miami-accents-how-miamah-turned-different-sort-twang |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Haggin |first=Patience |date=September 16, 2013 |title=English in the 305 has its own distinct Miami sound |work=[[Miami Herald]] |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/07/3609984/english-in-the-305-has-its-own.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203181803/http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/07/3609984/english-in-the-305-has-its-own.html |archive-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref>