This article presents an analysis of the role of social networks in shaping patterns of /æ/ realization among Latinxs in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Social network metrics are shown to be statistically significant predictors of pre-nasal /æ/ tensing. I argue that social network metrics operationalize important aspects of the sociolinguistic context and contribute to our understanding of factors influencing how Latinx speakers recruit locally significant sociolinguistic variables in linguistic performance. The data and analysis strongly argue against distinctiveness approaches to studies of language and ethnicity, where “racial categories are equated with empirically distinctive sets of linguistic features” (Rosa & Flores, 2017), by demonstrating that Latinx speakers participate in a local change-in-progress in ways that are shaped by the same types of sociolinguistic factors that shape linguistic variation generally. The analysis is based on excerpts from a series of interviews conducted with Latinxs in the city (n = 33) in 2017–2018. The interviews were transcribed and coded for tokens of /æ/. Participants were categorized into one of three systems of /æ/ realizations, and tokens of /æ/ were further analyzed using inferential statistics to determine which independent variables were significant predictors of pre-nasal /æ/ tensing. This research contributes to a growing body of work rejecting distinctiveness approaches to the linguistic performance of minoritized speakers, focusing instead on the ways in which individual speakers recruit linguistic features in the negotiation of identity (Eckert, 2008, 2018; Rosa & Flores, 2017; King 2016, 2018) and helps advance our understanding of how linguistic ideologies and articulations of ethnicity shape linguistic performance.

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新奥尔良拉丁裔英语使用者的社交网络几何、语言意识形态和身份协商

本文分析了社交网络在塑造新奥尔良卡特里娜飓风后拉丁裔 /æ/ 实现模式中的作用。社交网络指标被证明是鼻前 /æ/ 紧张的统计显着预测因子。我认为社交网络指标可操作社会语言背景的重要方面，并有助于我们理解影响拉丁语使用者如何在语言表现中吸收当地重要社会语言变量的因素。数据和分析强烈反对语言和种族研究的独特性方法，其中“种族类别等同于经验上独特的语言特征集”（Rosa＆Flores，2017），通过证明说拉丁语的人参与当地正在进行的变化，其方式是由通常影响语言变异的相同类型的社会语言因素所塑造的。该分析基于对该市拉丁裔进行的一系列采访的摘录（n  = 33)，2017-2018 年。访谈被转录并编码为 /æ/ 标记。参与者被归类为 /æ/ 实现的三个系统之一，并使用推论统计进一步分析 /æ/ 的标记，以确定哪些自变量是鼻前 /æ/ 紧张的重要预测因子。这项研究有助于越来越多的工作拒绝对少数民族说话者的语言表现采用独特方法，而是关注个别说话者在身份协商中吸收语言特征的方式（埃克特，2008 年，2018 年；罗莎和弗洛雷斯，2017 年； King 2016, 2018)，并有助于加深我们对语言意识形态和种族表达方式如何影响语言表现的理解。