us_spanish · United States
US Spanish (Heritage Speaker Profile)
Reference-quality preset: a phonetic matrix and a short blurb, not a full flagship build-out. See a flagship variety (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama) for situations, cultural context, sayings, and a guided path.
United States · Pan-regional / Second Generation
The heritage-speaker profile describes a widespread, well-studied pattern among second-generation US Spanish speakers: strong receptive competence and largely intact phonemic perception, alongside production that shows systematic English-influenced simplification -- English-timed rhythm and occasional final-consonant lenition. This is a documented bilingual-acquisition pattern, not a deficient or 'incomplete' Spanish; heritage speakers are full bilinguals with their own describable system.
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