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En el español de Medellín, Colombia, existe un sistema tripartito de formas de tratamiento de segunda persona: tú, usted, y vos. Estudios anteriores se han enfocado en el uso de formas de tratamiento de segunda persona en Colombia. Sin embargo, el estudio de actitudes implícitas hacia formas de tratamiento en estos sistemas tripartitos ha recibido poca atención. Este trabajo expande los resultados de estudios previos al usar una tarea de compleción del discurso y una técnica de máscaras emparejadas para comparar el uso y las actitudes lingüísticas hacia las formas de tratamiento de segunda persona en Medellín. Los resultados sugieren que los jóvenes favorecen vos, lo cual, junto con los resultados de las actitudes lingüísticas, muestran un cambio en el sistema de formas de tratamiento y un avance en ciertos grupos sociales. Este estudio no sólo demuestra el beneficio de usar métodos combinados para examinar datos sociolingüísticos, pero también confirma la interacción entre el uso y las actitudes lingüísticas.

In this study we examine the linguistic complexity and lexical properties of the discourse associated with second person singular forms of address (2PS) in the Spanish spoken in Medellín, Colombia. This Spanish variety exhibits the use of a tripartite system of 2PS, in which voseo, tuteo, and ustedeo are used, and sometimes interchanged, according to sociopragmatic factors. By means of a discourse completion task (DCT), 672 responses were collected from 38 informants. Data was parsed and tagged using UDPipe to train an annotation Spanish model. Syntactic and lexical properties were extracted automatically in Python. Results revealed the syntactic properties and the existence of collocations significantly associated with each 2PS. The discourse associated with vos differs in terms of the predicate structure, DCT response length, pragmatic function, and use of colloquial speech markers. Results of this work shed further light on the variable use of 2PS in this intriguing Spanish dialect.

Several studies have examined the second language acquisition of English conventional expressions (CEs) in the study abroad context. However, there is a lack of studies that investigate Spanish CEs and CEs in general in the at-home context. This study examines the foreign language acquisition of Spanish CEs in the at-home context and the effect of proficiency and Spanish social interaction outside of the classroom. Three levels of learners (3rd semester, 5th semester, and graduate level) (N = 32) and a Spanish speaker comparison group (N = 10) completed an oral discourse completion task, a recognition task, and a social interaction questionnaire. Results showed that social interaction in Spanish leads to better recognition of conventional expressions and that proficiency is a significant predictor of production of these expressions. Results have pedagogical implications, including the importance for instructors to provide input of expressions related to a variety of contexts.