Chicano English is a dialect of American English influenced by Spanish. It is used by Mexican Americans and has some phonological, morphological, and syntactic features that differ from other English varieties, such as devoicing of consonants, stress on prefixes, use of Spanish vocabulary, omission of verbs like "to be", and multiple negation. It developed as children acquired English in ethnic social settings while their first language was being acquired.

1. Chicano English

6. Stress Patterns In Chicano English, stress is often placed on one syllable prefixes as well as roots. The stress on one syllable prefixes and roots is elongated. Examples: AmE CE Today 'today decide 'decide refuse 'refuse Repeat 'repeat resist 'resist 1

8. Pluralization The plural marker /s/ is dropped when forming a separate syllable. Ex: five cent -> five cents different food -> different foods kiss-ditch -> kiss-ditches

9. Past Tense Marker In Chicano English the /-ed/ suffix which forms the past tense marker is not produced due to the phonological rules that prohibit the clustering of consonants at the end of words. Ex: Yesterday, he start selling newspapers.

11. Substitution of the negative element “not” with “until” “ Not” is omitted and “ until” can stand in as the negative element. ex: He’ll be home until seven o’clock

12. Verb To Be In Chicano English the verb to be is often not present. AmE CE And they are too old And they… too old. This is a school. This… a school. She is carrying her. She… carrying her. He is sleeping with a bear. He… sleeping with a bear.