 chicano english is a dialect of american english used by chicanos. one major variation of chicano english is tejano english, used mainly in south texas. it is mistakenly referred to as spanglish, which is not a recognized dialect of english but rather a mixing of the spanish and english languages. this is a native dialect of english, not learner english or interlanguage. it is sometimes spoken by people who know little or no spanish. ==origins and history== a high level of mexican immigration began in the 20th century with the exodus of refugees from the mexican revolution (1910) and the linkage of mexican railroads to the u.s. (santa ana, 1991). the hispanic population is one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnic groups in america. in the los angeles area alone, they form 40% of the population (roughly 1.4 out of 3.5 million, in the 1990 census). the result of this migration, and the segregated social conditions the immigrants found in california, is an ethnic community that is only partly assimilated to the matrix anglo (that is, european american) community. it retains symbolic links with hispanic culture (as well as real links through continuing immigration), but linguistically is mostly an english-speaking rather than a spanish-speaking community, though its members have a distinctive accent. the phonological inventory appears to be identical to that of the local anglo community. for example, the long and short vowels are clearly distinguished, as are the relatively rare english vowel classes . speculatively, it seems that the main differences between the chicano accent and the local anglo accent are first, that the chicanos are not participating in the ongoing phonetic changes in the anglo communities (the raising of ). the contact of chicanos with anglos, who are somewhat influenced by the speech of (immigrating) southerners (as are many californians) who have a fronted, monophthongized , might be responsible for the acquisition of a fronting rule for this phoneme, but this is mere speculation. still, a phonetic fronting rule is necessary to reconcile the basic hypothesis that the nucleus of  is phonologically identical with the nuclei of the other vowels.http://www.tomveatch.com/veatch1991/node107.html as spanish-speaking people migrated from other parts of hispanophone world to southwest, chicano english is now the customary dialect of many hispanic americans of diverse national heritages in southwest. as hispanic americans are of diverse racial origins, chicano english serves as the distinction from non-hispanic and non-latino americans in southwest. ==phonological features== chicano english has many features, especially
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