MIAMI - Sastre4
Instances of English for speaker EMI

1027EMIlike talking English when you got here .
  likelike.CONJ talkingtalk.V.PRESPART EnglishEnglish.N.SG whenwhen.CONJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP gotgot.V.PAST herehere.ADV .
  
1034EMImy problem is (.) <I practically> [///] I speak really good English because my mom my mom was raised here xxx .
  mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S problemproblem.N.SG isis.V.3S.PRES II.PRON.SUB.1S practicallypractical.ADJ+ADV.[or].practically.ADV II.PRON.SUB.1S speakspeak.V.1S.PRES reallyreal.ADJ+ADV goodgood.ADJ EnglishEnglish.N.SG becausebecause.CONJ mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S mommom.N.SG mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S mommom.N.SG waswas.V.3S.PAST raisedraise.V.PASTPART herehere.ADV .
  
1038EMIand she started teaching me English (be)cause she knew eventually I'd learn Spanish (be)cause everybody around me is Sish .
  andand.CONJ sheshe.PRON.SUB.F.3S startedstart.V.PAST teachingteach.V.PRESPART meme.PRON.OBJ.1S EnglishEnglish.N.SG becausebecause.CONJ sheshe.PRON.SUB.F.3S knewknew.V.3S.PRES eventuallyeventual.ADJ+ADV.[or].eventually.ADV I'dI.PRON.SUB.1S+BE.V.COND learnlearn.V.1S.PRES SpanishSpanish.N.SG becausebecause.CONJ everybodyeverybody.PRON aroundaround.ADV meme.PRON.OBJ.1S isis.V.3S.PRES Sishname .
  
1058EMIand I learned so when I came here I spoke perfect English .
  andand.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S learnedunk soso.ADV whenwhen.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S camecame.V.PAST herehere.ADV II.PRON.SUB.1S spokespoke.V.1S.PRES perfectperfect.ADJ EnglishEnglish.N.SG .
  

Change language


Contact us

bilingualism@bangor.ac.uk


The corpora

The Siarad corpus
The Patagonia corpus
The Miami corpus

sastre4: menu


Research Team


Collaborators


Publications


Bangor Autoglosser


Acknowledgements

The support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Welsh Government is gratefully acknowledged.