{"id":2134,"date":"2015-10-12T21:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T01:13:16","slug":"congratulations-to-danny-erker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/2015\/10\/12\/congratulations-to-danny-erker\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Danny Erker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty member Danny Erker was featured in the article &#8220;How \u2018ums\u2019 and \u2018ers\u2019 are changing Bostonian Spanish&#8221; in the\u00a0<em>Boston Globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"U813672991685D1C\"><span class=\"span\" id=\"U813672991685WAG\">BOSTON HAS SEEN <\/span>a dramatic increase in its Hispanic population since 2000, over 25 percent according to census records. That\u2019s left an obvious and significant mark on the way locals speak English \u2014 but the city\u2019s Spanish is also evolving, according to forthcoming research from Boston University linguist Daniel Erker.<\/p>\n<p>Erker\u2019s paper focuses on pause fillers, those tiny unconscious blips of sound, \u201cum\u201d or \u201cuh\u201d in English. What he\u2019s found is that, as the city\u2019s Spanish-speakers study English and come into contact with different varieties of their own language, filled pauses are evolving \u2014 part of what Erker thinks could be a new Bostonian Spanish, a way of speaking that\u2019s consistent across nationalities but distinct from the Spanish spoken in Miami or New York or Chicago. Erker\u2019s research, although still preliminary, suggests how much this phenomenon could resemble regional dialects in English \u2014 while making another argument for the power of the humble pause filler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2015\/09\/26\/how-ums-and-ers-are-changing-bostonian-spanish\/vFn5SNsKQgNr1Osz8w3EIP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty member Danny Erker was featured in the article &#8220;How \u2018ums\u2019 and \u2018ers\u2019 are changing Bostonian Spanish&#8221; in the\u00a0Boston Globe. BOSTON HAS SEEN a dramatic increase in its Hispanic population since 2000, over 25 percent according to census records. That\u2019s left an obvious and significant mark on the way locals speak English \u2014 but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[900],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}