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US Spanish (Miami Cuban)
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United States · Miami / South Florida
A Cuban base preserved remarkably intact across generations in Miami's dense exile community: gemination and glottal jota persist alongside a distinctly English-contact stress-timed rhythm.
Havana-style geminationGlottal jotaStress-timed rhythm (English contact)Fast Caribbean rhythm
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Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| S Treatments_treatment | gemination | Drill | |
| Liquid Neutralizationliquid_neutralization | gemination_assimilation | Drill | |
| Jota Realizationjota_realization | glottal_h | Drill | |
| Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction | nasalized_open | Drill | |
| Intonation Contourintonation_contour | caribbean_staccato | Drill | |
| Syllable Timingsyllable_timing | stress_timed | Drill | |
| Speech Ratespeech_rate | fast | Drill |