¿Constituyen las Antillas y el Caribe continental una sola zona dialectal?

Claes, Jeroen

doi:10.1075/sic.8.2.01cla

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“…These results imply that the effects of TMA are similar across Mexico. These tendencies are further commensurate with what occurs throughout the Hispanic World in monolingual speech communities (Abreu 2009(Abreu , 2012Cameron 1993;Claes 2011;Orozco 2015;Travis 2005bTravis , 2007; among others) as well as in situation of contact with other languages (Bayley & Pease-Álvarez 1997;Erker & Guy 2012;Hochberg 1986;Shin & Erker 2015:180). Thus, our results support the premise that morphologically ambiguous verbal paradigms such as the imperfect tense promote more overt pronominal subjects than unambiguous forms.…”

Section: Grammatical Person and Number Of The Subjectmentioning

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Subject pronoun expression in Mexican Spanish: ¿Qué pasa en Xalapa?

Orozco

2016

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Abstract. This study is the first variationist analysis of subject personal pronoun expression (SPE) in the Spanish of Xalapa, Mexico. The overall pronominal rate (25%)-the highest such rate found in Mexican Spanish so far-also constitutes one of the highest in a mainland Spanish variety. Six predictors-four internal and two external-significantly condition SPE. The internal conditioning-congruent with what occurs elsewhere-reveals grammatical number and person of the subject as the strongest predictor. It also shows that verb class has tendencies similar to those found in other communities. However, further analysis uncovers that lexical frequency provides more definite answers regarding how verbs condition SPE, as within the copulative verb class category ser 'be' favors overt subjects but estar 'be' favors null subjects. Moreover, the unusually robust effect of age sets Xalapa Spanish apart from most other varieties. Interestingly, the pronominal rate among teenagers (11%)-below the lowest overall pronominal rate anywhere-is consistent with what occurs in other Spanish varieties such as Colombian, European, Dominican, and Mexican. These findings call for further research on the effects of verb semantics and age on SPE.

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Section: Grammatical Person and Number Of The Subjectmentioning

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Subject pronoun expression in Mexican Spanish: ¿Qué pasa en Xalapa?

Orozco

2016

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…The variable presence vs. absence of subject pronouns with finite verbs has been extensively investigated in communities throughout the Hispanophone world (Guitart 1982, Silva-Corvalán 1982, Cameron 1993, Bayley and Pease-Alvarez 1997, Flores-Ferrán 2002, Orozco and Guy 2008, Torres Cacoullos and Travis 2010, Claes 2011, Holmquist 2012, Otheguy and Zentella 2012, Shin 2014, Michnowicz 2015, Carvalho et al 2015. Despite widely shared norms in terms of linguistic factors that condition the presence or absence of pronouns, regional differences in overall rates of pronoun use are routinely reported (Lipski 1994:221, Otheguy et al 2007.…”

Section: The Presence Vs Absence Of Subject Pronounsmentioning

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The limits of named language varieties and the role of social salience in dialectal contact: The case of Spanish in the United States

Erker

2017

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Studying dialectal contact offers linguists an opportunity to critically examine some of our most basic assumptions about language. In particular, careful consideration of geographically constrained patterns of linguistic variation highlights the limitations of named language varieties as tools for linguistic inquiry. Ultimately, the locus of contact is not to be found in the interaction of such abstractions, but rather in the individual minds of those who live in contact communities. The present paper highlights these issues through a discussion of Spanish dialectal contact in the U.S., with a special emphasis on the variable social salience of regionally differentiated features. Work reviewed here is consistent with previous research that finds the relative salience of features to be a key determinant of their trajectory in situations of contact. Change in the use of high salience features is likely to be the result of direct accommodation between speakers, while change in low salience features is likely to arise by other, indirect mechanisms. The role of salience in shaping the outcomes of contact reinforces its inherently social nature, reminding us that what we hope to understand are not the results of dialects in contact, but rather, those of people in contact.

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“…Third, there is nothing sacrosanct about national origin as a tool for identifying dialectal groupings. For example, there appears to be wide variation within Colombia, and scholars have argued that the Spanish spoken on the Colombian coast shares many features with that of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic (Lipski 1994:6;Orozco & Guy 2008; but also see Claes 2011). 8 An anonymous reviewer suggested that social class should include more than two categories.…”

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Social class and gender impacting change in bilingual settings: Spanish subject pronoun use in New York

Shin

Otheguy

2013

Lang. Soc.

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A B S T R A C TThis study examines the role of social class and gender in an ongoing change in Spanish spoken in New York City (NYC). The change, which has to do with increasing use of Spanish subject pronouns, is correlated with increased exposure to life in NYC and to English. Our investigation of six different national-origin groups shows a connection between affluence and change: the most affluent Latino groups undergo the most increase in pronoun use, while the least affluent undergo no change. This pattern is explained as further indication that resistance to linguistic change is more pronounced in poorer communities as a result of denser social networks. In addition we find a women effect: immigrant women lead men in the increasing use of pronouns. We argue that the women effect in bilingual settings warrants a reevaluation of existing explanations of women as leaders of linguistic change. (Language change, social class, gender, bilingualism, Spanish in the US, pronouns)* I N T R O D U C T I O NIn monolingual settings, gender and social class have been shown to be relevant variables in our understanding of language change. But are these variables also relevant to language change in bilingual settings and, more specifically, in immigrant bilingual settings? In this article we examine an ongoing change in the Spanish spoken in New York City (NYC), and find evidence that this change occurs most rapidly among the more affluent Latino communities and among women.

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¿Constituyen las Antillas y el Caribe continental una sola zona dialectal?

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Subject pronoun expression in Mexican Spanish: ¿Qué pasa en Xalapa?

Subject pronoun expression in Mexican Spanish: ¿Qué pasa en Xalapa?

The limits of named language varieties and the role of social salience in dialectal contact: The case of Spanish in the United States

Social class and gender impacting change in bilingual settings: Spanish subject pronoun use in New York

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