Miami accent

The Miami accent is an evolving American English accent or sociolect spoken in South Florida, particularly in Miami-Dade county, originating from central Miami. The Miami accent is most prevalent in American-born Hispanic youth who live in the Greater Miami area.
Origin.
The Miami accent was developed by second- or third-generation Miamians, particularly young adults whose first language was English but were bilingual. Since World War II, Miami's population has grown rapidly every decade partly because of the postwar baby boom. In 1950, the US Census stated that Dade County's population was 495,084. Beginning with rapid international immigration from South America and the Caribbean (exacerbated by the Cuban exodus in the early 1960s), Miami's population has drastically grown every decade since. Many of the immigrants began to inhabit the urban industrial area around Downtown Miami. By 1970, the census stated that Dade County's population was 1,267,792. By 2000, the population reached 2,253,362. Growing up in Miami's urban center, second-, third-, and fourth-generation, Miamians of the immigration wave of the 1960s and 1970s developed the Miami accent. It is now the customary dialect of many citizens in the Miami metropolitan area.
Phonology.
The Miami accent is a native dialect of English and is not a second-language English or an interlanguage. The variety can be differentiated from an interlanguage spoken by second-language speakers in that the Miami accent generally lacks certain features.
There is no addition of before initial consonant clusters with , speakers do not confuse with , ("Yale" with "jail"), and /r/ and /rr/ are pronounced as alveolar approximant [] instead of alveolar tap [] or alveolar trill [r] in Spanish.
The Miami accent is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some changes very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic, especially the New York City dialect, Northern New Jersey English, and New York Latino English. Unlike Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern American, and Northeast American dialects (see section below), the Miami accent is rhotic and incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation that are heavily influenced by Spanish, whose rhythm is syllable-timed.
Some specific features of the accent include the following:
The phonology and sounds of the Miami accent were reported in the "Miami Herald:"
These features of the Miami accent were noted in a report from WLRN Radio:
Lexical characteristics.
Speakers of the Miami accent occasionally use "calques," which are idioms directly translated from Spanish that may sound syntactically unusual to other native English speakers. For example, instead of saying, "let's get out of the car," someone from Miami might say, "let's get down from the car," which is the standard expression in Spanish.
Other Miami terms especially common among Miami youth, often called "slang," include: