Spanish English Codeswitching In The Caribbean And The Us

Author : Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Catherine M. Mazak,M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266675

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Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Catherine M. Mazak,M. Carmen Parafita Couto Pdf

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as various methodological approaches, such as the collection of naturalistic oral and written data, the use of reading comprehension tasks, the elicitation of acceptability judgments, and computational methods. The volume surpasses the limits of different fields in order to enable a rich characterization of the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-pragmatic factors that affect codeswitching, therefore, leading interested students, professors, and researchers to a better understanding of the regularities governing Spanish-English codeswitches, the representation and processing of codeswitches in the bilingual brain, the interaction between bilinguals’ languages and their mutual influence during linguistic expression.

Author : Laura Callahan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241384

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Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus by Laura Callahan Pdf

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories published in the United States by twenty-four authors between 1970-2000. An application of the Matrix Language Frame model shows that written codeswitching follows for the most part the same syntactic patterns as its spoken counterpart. The reasons why some written codeswitching is considered to be artificial or inauthentic are examined. An overview of written codeswitching research is given, including titles of many texts in addition to the corpus that contain codeswitching between diverse languages. The book concludes with a look at how codeswitching is used by writers to attain their objectives, and what the implications may be for the relative positions of Spanish, English, and Spanish/English codeswitching in the United States.

Author : Daniel J. Villa,Jens H. Clegg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351697095

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U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi by Daniel J. Villa,Jens H. Clegg Pdf

U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi proposes a macro-dialect of the most widely spoken Spanish variety in the western United States from a number of social and linguistic angles. This book is unique in its focus on this one variety of Spanish, which allows for a closer investigation of the social context and linguistic features through a number of different topics. Comprised of 13 chapters divided into two sections, this textbook provides insight into the history, demographics, migration, and social issues of US Mexican Spanish in the first section and its lexicography, phonology, and structure in the second. Useful for scholars interested in Spanish in the United States, dialectology, and sociolinguistics, this is also an ideal resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Spanish.

Author : Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López,Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000454574

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Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions by Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López,Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender Pdf

Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions brings together the most current research on linguistic perceptions of varieties of Spanish. The book includes articles from a range of expert contributors using different methodologies and looking at diverse sociolinguistic settings. Readers will gain a rich understanding of the importance of linguistic perceptions and the societal attitudes they are linked to. Readers will also gain insight into the interplay between socioeconomic groups, and educational and linguistic norms and the perception of non-standardized forms of Spanish. The volume highlights the relationship between language and social perceptions and will be of particular interest to researchers and students in Hispanic linguistics, sociophonetics, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Alicia Pousada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443896078

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Being Bilingual in Borinquen by Alicia Pousada Pdf

The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live there have been muted. This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico. The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss their mark.

Author : Luis López
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108485302

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Bilingual Grammar by Luis López Pdf

An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.

Author : Jeanine Treffers-Daller,Esther Ruigendijk,Julia Elisabeth Hofweber
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667178

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Behavioral and Neurophysiological Approaches to Code-Switching and Language Switching by Jeanine Treffers-Daller,Esther Ruigendijk,Julia Elisabeth Hofweber Pdf

Author : Kim Potowski,Lourdes Torres
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199326143

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Spanish in Chicago by Kim Potowski,Lourdes Torres Pdf

"Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, a site where Spanish is a minority language in contact with dominant English. The book's goal is to describe the oral Spanish of Chicago based Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and MexiRicans across three generations and identify patterns of change and propose explanations for them. It describes what happens when speakers who use different varieties of Spanish come into contact with each other in Chicago. The study contributes to discussions of possible language or dialect contact outcomes such as linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation, and language loss. The book starts with an introduction to the history of the Puerto Rican and Mexican communities in Chicago, including histories of settlement, shifting demographics, contact and engagement, and mutual social and linguistic attitudes. It features an analysis of five linguistic features: lexical familiarity, proportional use of "so" vs "entonces", number of codeswitches and percent English use, production of subjunctive morphology in obligatory and variable contexts, and two phonological features, the weakening of coda /s/ and the velarization of /r/. The analyses consider the role of proficiency and generation in the production of all five of these features. The book then offers an extensive discussion of the factors that underlie the development of diverse Spanish proficiency levels within Latino Chicago and offers suggestions on how to promote Spanish language vitality across generations in the future. The book's findings are compared to other foundational studies of Spanish in the US"--

Author : Luis A. Ortiz López,Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Melvin González-Rivera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261717

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Hispanic Contact Linguistics by Luis A. Ortiz López,Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Melvin González-Rivera Pdf

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina); and varied participant groups, ranging from dialect contacts, second-language learners and heritage speakers to balanced bilinguals and code-switchers. Taken together, the chapters provide rich empirical descriptions of data pertaining to different levels of language, diverse – naturalistic and experimental – methodological approaches to data collection, as well as theoretical implications of the findings. The interdisciplinary perspective adopted by the authors contributes to the linguistic analysis and offers important insights into theoretical linguistics in general, and into theories of sociolinguistics, language variation, bilingualism, and second language acquisition.

Author : Fatih Bayram,Maki Kubota,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832546932

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements by Fatih Bayram,Maki Kubota,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares Pdf

Over the past three decades studies investigating heritage speaker (HS) linguistic competencies have shown, time and again that, despite being L1 or 2L1 native speakers of their home language(s), HS outcomes display variation across a wide spectrum of differences as compared to each other, other types of bilinguals as well as their monolingual peers. Studies have traditionally used—mostly behavioral—methodologies rooted in adjacent established fields (e.g., L1 acquisition, adult L2 acquisition) offering, in addition to documenting and describing HS performance, important insights for linguistic theory and challenges related to (home/minority) language maintenance, contact, policy and more. A birds-eye view makes it clear that the methodologies one uses to tap into HSs’ linguistic knowledge areas, if not more, are important than the phenomena under investigation, especially in light of how their unique experiences with their heritage and other languages are present across a continuum.

Author : Jennifer Cabrelli,Adel Chaouch-Orozco,Jorge González Alonso,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares,Eloi Puig-Mayenco,Jason Rothman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108962742

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The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition by Jennifer Cabrelli,Adel Chaouch-Orozco,Jorge González Alonso,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares,Eloi Puig-Mayenco,Jason Rothman Pdf

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing. It features 30 approachable chapters covering topics such as multilingual language acquisition, education, language maintenance and language loss, multilingual code-switching, ageing in the multilingual brain, and many more. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of the state of the art in its topic, while offering comprehensive access to the specialized literature, through carefully curated citations. It also serves as a methodological resource for researchers in the field, offering chapters on methods such as case studies, corpora, artificial language systems or statistical modelling of multilingual data.

Author : Alfonso Morales-Front,Michael J. Ferreira,Ronald P. Leow,Cristina Sanz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261328

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Hispanic Linguistics by Alfonso Morales-Front,Michael J. Ferreira,Ronald P. Leow,Cristina Sanz Pdf

This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a variety of recent theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies and make important contributions to our current understanding of language acquisition, theoretical and descriptive linguistics, and language contact. This collection of articles is a testimony to the breadth and degree of specialization of the scholarly interest in the field. The selection of refereed chapters included in this volume were originally presented at the 20th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) hosted at Georgetown University, 2016. The book should be read with interest by scholars and graduate students hoping to gain insight into the issues currently debated in Hispanic Linguistics.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258397

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The Acquisition of Gender by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity, and even closely related languages present distinct differences, creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas – gender assignment in mixed noun phrases, subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish – while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children, adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian, German, Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.

Author : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,Tanja Temmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191021176

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The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,Tanja Temmerman Pdf

This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form. Natural language abounds in these apparently incomplete expressions, such as I laughed but Ed didn't, in which the final portion of the sentence, the verb 'laugh', remains unpronounced but is still understood. The range of phenomena involved raise general and fundamental questions about the workings of grammar, but also constitute a treasure trove of fine-grained points of inter- and intralinguistic variation. The volume is divided into four parts. In the first, authors examine the role that ellipsis plays and how it is analysed in different theoretical frameworks and linguistic subdisciplines, such as HPSG, construction grammar, inquisitive semantics, and computational linguistics. Chapters in the second part highlight the usefulness of ellipsis as a diagnostic tool for other linguistic phenomena including movement and islands and codeswitching, while part III focuses instead on the types of elliptical constructions found in natural language, such as sluicing, gapping, and null complement anaphora. Finally, the last part of the book contains case studies that investigate elliptical phenomena in a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, Japanese, Persian, and Finnish Sign Language.

Author : Alejandro Cuza,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501509988

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Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula by Alejandro Cuza,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide. This volume focuses on the contact between Spanish and other language varieties, including Catalan, Portuguese and Galician in the Spanish Peninsula. The book explores the characteristics of such language contact situations from structural, developmental, societal and cognitive perspectives.