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Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish: A Cross-Dialectal Perspective

Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 2017
Nowadays, no one would question the fact that linguistic variation is universal. Indeed, any linguistic production offers information about biological (age, gender, physiological characteristics, h...
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Acquiring constraints on morphosyntactic variation: children's Spanish subject pronoun expression

Journal of Child Language, 2015
ABSTRACTConstraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age ...
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Variable subject personal pronoun expression

2018
This chapter explores the linguistic conditioning on variable subject personal pronoun expression (SPE). Tendencies in Barranquilla and New York are largely congruent with those throughout the Hispanic World, with Subject Person & Number and Switch Reference exerting the strongest pressures. The effects of verb semantics are particularly meaningful
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The Role of Lexical Frequency in Syntactic Variability: Variable Subject Personal Pronoun Expression in Spanish

Language, 2012
Much recent work argues that lexical frequency plays a central explanatory role in linguistic theory, but the status, predicted effects, and methodological treatment of frequency are controversial, especially so in the less-investigated area of syntactic variation.
Daniel Erker, Gregory R. Guy
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Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages

2010
This paper examines subject pronoun expression in the speech of Spanish-Veneto bilinguals in central Mexico. Non-target subject expression has been found among adult language learners, heritage speakers, and speakers undergoing L1 attrition. Such patterns have been variously attributed to transfer/interference and loss of discourse-pragmatic ...
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First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador

Spanish in Context, 2023
Abstract This variationist study analyzes the first-person subject pronoun expression (SPE) of speakers from Quito, Ecuador. To date, this morphosyntactic variable has not been explored in this Andean variety of Spanish. The data consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews.
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A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression

2017
This chapter discusses new light on subject expression in Puerto Rican Spanish (PRSp) through the contribution of data from an area outside the often-studied metropolitan area of San Juan. With regard to subject expression, much work has been done on subject forms, with the bulk of work focused on the appearance of overt subject personal pronouns (SPPs)
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A Bend in the Road: Subject Personal Pronoun Expression in Spanish after 30 Years of Sociolinguistic Research

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007
Abstract Scholars have investigated the variable use of subject personal pronouns (SPP) in oral and written discourse using a sociolinguistic framework for over three decades. The focal point of their research has been to determine the linguistic, stylistic, and social factors that influence speakers to express or
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Null-subject encounter: Variable subject pronoun expression in the Spanish of Quechua-Spanish bilinguals in the Central Peruvian Andes

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2018
Objectives and Research Questions: This study explores the effects of bilingualism on the production of subject personal pronouns (SPPs) in speakers of two null-subject languages, Quechua and Spanish. The paper also seeks to determine if these effects can be explained by general bilingual accounts, such as the ...
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Subject pronoun expression in Colombian Spanish in Philadelphia

Abstract Spanish in the United States is a testament to language change from different dialects and cultures. Subject pronoun expression (SPE) remains a showcase variable in Spanish, and we still find nuances about SPE and its distribution across different communities. Here, I describe the results of a
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