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Gabriel, Christoph; Kireva, Elena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically "Italianized" due to migration-induced contact. The change in Porteño prosody has been interpreted as a result of transfer from the first language (L1) that occurred when Italian immigrants learned…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Language Rhythm, Intonation, Second Language Learning