ISBN:
9789027267245
Series Statement:
Issues in hispanic and lusophone linguistics volume 8
Content:
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- Quantitative analysis in language variation and change -- 1. Distributional analysis -- 1.1 Statistical modeling -- 1.2 The three lines of evidence -- 1.2.1 Statistical significance -- 1.2.2 Constraints -- 1.2.3 Strength -- 2. The case study - variable (that) -- 3. Goldvarb logistic regression -- 4. New statistical tools -- 4.1 The effect of the individual -- 4.2 Independence of observations -- 4.3 How to find interaction in a variable rule analysis -- 4.4 The kitchen sink -- 4.5 Tokens per individual -- 4.6 Tokens per cell -- 4.7 Type/token ratio -- 4.8 The pre-statistical toolkit -- 5. Drawbacks to the variable rule program -- 6. New toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics -- 6.1 Rbrul -- 6.2 Basic Rbrul steps -- 6.3. Mixed effects modeling -- 6.4 R -- 6.5 Basic R steps -- 6.5.1 Mixed effects - R -- 6.5.2 Checking for interaction - R -- 6.5.3 Comparison across tools -- 6.5.4 Conditional inference trees -- 7. Practical advice -- 8. Summary -- References -- Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Palenque: Location and brief description -- 3. Palenque and its African origins -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Scholarship into Palenque's African past: Early assumptions and a priori limitations -- 3.3 Palenque's African past: First attempts at narrowing down origins -- 3.4 Palenque's African past: The 1980s to mid-1990s -- 3.5 The growing centrality of Kikongo and connections to Afro-Cuban ritual language -- 3.6 A revelation: It is all Kikongo! -- 4. The state of the discipline from the mid-1990s to 2010 -- 4.1 The monogenetic Kikongo hypothesis around 2010: Lingering doubts
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5. The game changer: Population genetic (DNA) research -- 5.1 Contributors to the research -- 5.2 Ansari-Pour's comparative DNA study: 42 African ethnolinguistic communities vs. Palenque -- 5.2.1 Goals and methods -- 5.2.2 DNA data collection in Palenque, the Republic of the Congo, and beyond -- 5.2.3 Results: Frequencies of NRY haplogroups and NRY-based genetic distances -- 5.2.4 Resolving the Chewa paradox -- 5.3 The relevance of shared articulatory features: Further thoughts on the common ancestry of the Bakongo, Chewa, Palenqueros, and Paleros -- 5.4 External historical data: Slave trade in Loango and the Mayombe -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 Salvadoran vocabulary among Mexicans -- 3.2 Salvadoran vocabulary among all participants -- 3.3 Standard Mexican Spanish stereotypes in Lynwood: 1st generation speakers -- 3.4 Standard Mexican Spanish stereotypes in Lynwood: 2nd generation speakers -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- On the tenacity of Andean Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data collection -- 3. Extension of the Spanish gerund -- 3.1 The Kichwa "gerund" -shpa -- 3.2 Spanish gerunds in the Ecuadoran Andean Spanish corpus -- 3.3. A translation task -- 3.4. Historical reinforcement of the Spanish gerund -- 4. Use of -ca and -tan as discourse markers -- 4.1. Ecuadoran Andean Spanish -ca and Kichwa -ka -- 4.2. Ecuadoran Andean Spanish -tan and possible Kichwa sources -- 4.3. Probing for -ca and -tan: A translation experiment -- 4.4. Results: Ecuadoran Andean Spanish -ca and Kichwa -ka -- 4.5. Why -ca? -- 4.6. Results: Ecuadoran Andean Spanish -tan into Kichwa -- 4.7. Factors influencing the presence of -ca and -tan in Ecuadoran Andean Spanish
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5. How do speakers acquire and retain Ecuadoran Andean Spanish-specific elements? -- 5.1. Other non-canonical features in Ecuadoran Andean Spanish -- 5.2. The changing linguistic ecology of highland indigenous communities -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Spanish and Valencian in contact -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Studying the linguistic landscape -- 1.2 Language use: Beyond a linguistic issue -- 1.3 The city of Elche -- 2. Methodology and data -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Types of signs -- 3.2 Author: Top-down vs. bottom-up signage. -- 3.3 Location: ¿a diglossic linguistic landscape? -- 4. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Children's Spanish subject pronoun expression: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adult Spanish subject pronoun use: Rates and constraints -- 3. Previous research: Children's Spanish subject pronoun use -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Participants & Interviews -- 4.2 The envelope of variation -- 4.3 Coding and statistical analyses -- 5. Results: Pronoun rates -- 6. Results: Linguistic constraints on pronoun use -- 7. Second-person singular tú expression -- 7.1 Nonspecific tú -- 7.2 Specific tú: Reported and non-reported speech -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Use of the Castilian [θ] during SA -- 3. Social Networks -- 3.1 Native speaker and nonnative speaker social networks in study abroad -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Program information -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Distinction between /s/ and /θ/ -- 4.3.1 Data collection and analysis -- 4.4 Social networks -- 4.5 Language use -- 4.6 Motivation and acculturation -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Clay's distinction between [s] and [θ] -- 5.2 Clay's social network -- 5.3 Lacy's distinction between [s] and [θ] -- 5.4 Lacy's social network
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5.5 Ellie's distinction between [s] and [θ] -- 5.6 Ellie's social network -- 5.7 Gabi's distinction between [s] and [θ] -- 5.8 Gabi's social network -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research context -- 3. The current investigation -- 3.1 Participants and elicitation tasks -- 3.2 Coding -- 3.3 Analysis -- 4. Results -- 6. Conclusion and future directions -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. /ʔ/ across Spanish dialects -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Previous research on vowel raising in Spanish -- 1.2 Previous work on social networks -- 1.3 Goals and research questions -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants and task -- 2.2 Data analysis -- 2.2.1 Independent factors -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Reference -- Bilingualism and aspiration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 The sociohistorical foundation of modern western Nicaragua and the Atlantic Coast -- 2.2 /s/ reduction in Spanish -- 2.3 The acquisition of variation -- 2.3.1 Spanish variation in monolinguals, heritage speakers, and bilinguals' production -- 2.3.2 L2 learners and variable rules -- 2.4 The perception of /s/ reductions -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Participants and task -- 3.2 Analysis of the data -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Spanish and Portuguese parallels -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociolinguistic commonalities -- 3. Structural commonalities -- 4. Data collection -- 5. Data analysis -- 6. On the nature of impoverished agreement in ABS and PBP -- 6.1 Agree and agreement
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6.2 A feature geometry account of default values -- 6.3 On the persistence of default values in vernacular speech -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The history of Rocha's Spanish -- 3. Forms of address in Uruguay -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- APPENDIX A -- A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and motivation -- 2.1 Latinos in NYC -- 2.2 Subject p lacement -- 2.3 Research question -- 2.4 Hypotheses -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Study 1 -- 4.1.1 Preverbal rate by region, generation, language skills/use, education, SES, and class -- 4.1.2 Multivariate analyses of preverbal rate -- 4.1.3 Multivariate analyses of preverbal rate by region -- 4.1.4 Multivariate analyses of preverbal rate by generation -- 4.2 Study 2 -- 4.2.1 Preverbal pronoun rate by region -- 4.2.2 Preverbal pronoun rate by English Skills, education, SES, and generation -- 4.2.3 Multivariate analyses of preverbal pronoun rate -- 4.2.4 Multivariate analyses of preverbal pronoun rate by region -- 5. Summary and Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Social factors in semantic change -- 1. Overview -- 2. Etymology and transmission into Ibero-Romance -- 3. Attestations from searchable databases -- 3.1 [ADORN] -- 3.2 [APPLY COSMETICS] -- 3.3 [Shave] -- 4. Intervening social factors -- 5. Intervening cognitive factors -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociolinguistic framework: Standardization of Castilian Spanish -- 2.1 Codification -- 2.2 Language attitudes, prescription and purism -- 2.3 Selection
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3. Neither with you nor without you: Arabisms in the Spanish Lexicon
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ISBN 9789027258076
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spanish language and sociolinguistic analysis Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016 ISBN 9789027258076
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Spanisch
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Sprachvariante
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Soziolinguistik
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Author information:
Sessarego, Sandro 1983-
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