Spanish in New York : language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity

Spanish in New York : language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity / Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella.

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City repres...

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Main Author: Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945-
Other Authors: Zentella, Ana Celia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Subjects:
Spanish language > Provincialisms > New York (State) > New York.
Spanish language > Pronoun.
Spanish language > Dialects > New York (State) > New York.
Bilingualism > New York (State) > New York.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Spanish.
Bilingualism
Spanish language > Dialects
Spanish language > Pronoun
Spanish language > Provincialisms
New York (State) > New York
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Continuity, Language Contact, and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Variable Subject Pronoun Use
  • 2.1 An Initial Illustration
  • 2.2 A Note on Conceptualization and Accompanying Terminology
  • 3. Language Contact and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York
  • 3.1 Language Contact
  • 3.2 Dialectal Leveling
  • 3.3 Variation and Explanation in Performance Grammar
  • 4. The Sample and the Corpus
  • 5. Summary and Conclusions
  • 2. Interviews and Transcripts1. Introduction
  • 2. Stratification of the Sample
  • 2.1 Gender
  • 2.2 Age
  • 2.3 National and Regional Origin
  • 2.4 Generational Cohorts
  • 2.5 Age of Arrival in New York
  • 2.6 Years Lived in NYC
  • 2.7 Immigrant Newcomers, Established Immigrants, and the NYR
  • 2.8 Social Class
  • 2.9 Educational Attainment
  • 2.10 English Skills
  • 2.11 Level of Use of Spanish
  • 3. Cross-Stratification of the Sample
  • 3.1 Region and Gender
  • 3.2 Region and Generation
  • 3.3 Region and Age of Arrival
  • 3.4 Region and Years in NYC
  • 3.5 Region and Exposure4. The Interviews and the Transcripts
  • 4.1 General Characteristics of the Transcripts
  • 4.2 Amount of Talk by Consultants
  • 4.3 Transcription Using Conventional Orthography
  • 4.4 Accepting and Rejecting Interviews
  • 4.5 Labeling Interviews and Transcripts
  • 5. Summary and Conclusions
  • 3. The Envelope of Variation and the Formation of the Corpus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Categorical and Variable Contexts
  • 1.2 The Principle of Accountability and the Nature of Variable Data
  • 2. Requirements for Bare Verbs to be Included in the Corpus2.1 An Available Subject Slot
  • 2.2 An Ascertainable Denotational Subject
  • 2.3 Denoting an Animate Entity
  • 3. Requirements for Pronouns to be Included in the Corpus
  • 3.1 Exclude False Starts
  • 3.2 Exclude Left Dislocations
  • 3.3 Exclude Logophoric X-Forms
  • 3.4 Two Statistical Inconsistencies
  • 4. Decisions Regarding Incorporation Based on Types of Contexts, Not on Individual Occurrences
  • 5. A Fully Contextualized Illustration of Decisions Regarding the Corpus
  • 6. Summary and Conclusions
  • 4. The Pronoun Rate: Delineating New York Latino Communities1. Introduction
  • 2. Similarities and Differences in the Use of Pronouns by Basic Demographic Groups
  • 2.1 Gender, Age, Education, and Social Class
  • 2.2 Socioeconomic Status (SES)
  • 3. National and Regional Origins
  • 4. Regional Differences and the Pronoun Rate in the Basic Demographic Groups
  • 5. The Group and the Individual
  • 6. The Corpus, the City, and the Nature of Statistical Inference
  • 7. Summary and Conclusions
  • 5. Language Contact in Spanish in New York
  • 1. Introduction

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