Spanish language and sociolinguistic analysis /

"This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different...

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Other Authors: Sessarego, Sandro (Editor), Tejedo-Herrero, L. Fernando (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789027267245
9027267243
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Quantitative analysis in language variation and change
  • Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics
  • Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish
  • On the tenacity of Andean Spanish
  • Spanish and Valencian in contact
  • Children's Spanish subject pronoun expression: The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad
  • Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish
  • On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish
  • Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán
  • Bilingualism and aspiration
  • Spanish and Portuguese parallels
  • The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay
  • A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals
  • Social factors in semantic change
  • Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts
  • "Trabajar es en español, en ladino es lavorar."