Mock Spanish, was Re: Rhys Ifans! Welsh fans, another pronunciation pop question

In a message dated 11/28/2004 1:10:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

>I think many young Americans are terribly embarrassed by language issues and
>the "deformation" of what sounds "normal" to them, such that bilabial
>fricatives, tense vowels and other sounds in Spanish would make them
>uncomfortable.  And envious.  Or maybe your pronunciation expertise makes
>you sound Mexican Spanish to your California bozos; we're a nation that
>hates its Latinos, or associates them with gardeners and hotel maids.  So
>this laughter would, in fact, constitute bigotry, whereas I don't think that
>"Viet n&m" does in quite the same way.
People following this thread might be interested in this paper about the use
of "Mock Spanish" by American English speakers:

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/SPAN/mockspan.html

The links for the slides don't work there (at least not for me).  You can
find them here:

http://www.deaflibrary.org/nakamura/courses/linguisticanthro/hill1995-slides/

Doug