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Register variation by Spanish users of English: The Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English [PDF]
AbstractEnglish serves as alingua francain situations with varying degrees of formality. How formality affects non-native speech has rarely been studied. We investigated register variation by Spanish users of English by comparing formal and informal speech from the Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English that we created. This corpus comprises speech from 34
Huib Kouwenhoven +2 more
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Variation in Spanish /s/: Overview and New Perspectives
The natural tendency for language variation, intensified by Spanish’s territorial growth, has driven sibilant changes and mergers across the Spanish-speaking world.
Eva Núñez-Méndez
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Rhotic variation and contrast in veracruz Mexican Spanish
Phonetic studies of Spanish rhotics report a wide range of allophonic variants of the syllable-initial trill /r/, which raises the question of whether the intervocalic contrast between /r/ and the tap /ɾ/ has been neutralized in many dialects. This
Travis G. Bradley, Erik W. Willis
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Morphological variation in Spanish [PDF]
Abstract In this article, we examine the current situation of studies that concentrate on the study of morphological variation in Spanish. We start discussing the place of morphology in current linguistic theory, and what its different aspects are, a question that is previous to the identification of the relevant phenomena.
Fábregas, Antonio, Gallego, Ángel J.
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A lo largo de los años se han publicado numerosos artículos sobre variación biológica (VB) de diferente calidad. Los objetivos de este trabajo fueron realizar una revisión sistemática y una evaluación crítica de los estudios de VB para albúmina ...
Ricós Carmen +15 more
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Rhotic variation in Costa Rican spanish
The class of sounds classified under the umbrella term “rhotic” demonstrate considerable variability across, languages, dialects, and speech styles. This is no exception in Spanish, where rhotics have received considerable attention.
Matt Dearstyne
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This paper deals with the use of two spatial adverbial constructions in Spanish: locative adverb + possessive pronoun (as in “delante suyo”), that alternates with the normative form locative adverb + [preposition de + personal pronoun] (as in “delante de
Matti Marttinen Larsson +1 more
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Variation and Use of Relativizers in the Spanish of Medellín, Colombia: A Corpus-Based Study
The study of relativizers in the Spanish language has not been quite explored from a sociolinguistic point of view. A few research papers have analyzed varieties found in Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Sevilla, and Madrid.
Franklin Yessid Arias Bedoya
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EN TORNO A RUTINAS, DERIVAS Y VARIACIÓN EN LA MORFOSINTAXIS HISTÓRICA HISPANOAMERICANA
On Routines, Drifts and Variation in Spanish-American Historical Morphosyntax. This work is a theoretical approach in which, in the first place, we set out and discuss the key points that will serve to establish the identification of the main ...
Juan Pedro SÁNCHEZ-MÉNDEZ
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Toeing the Party Line: Indexicality and Regional Andalusian Phonetic Features in Political Speech
Performative style is an important sociolinguistic variable among politicians, who accomplish agentive goals through speech. Examining 32 Spanish politicians, this article focuses on four Andalusian Spanish phenomena: the fronting of /t͡ʃ/ and the ...
Matthew Pollock
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