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Feature Variability in the Bilingual-Monolingual Continuum: Clitics in Bilingual Quechua-Spanish, Bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in Monolingual Limeño Spanish Contact Varieties
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Mayer, Elisabeth; Sánchez, Liliana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Direct object clitics in Latin American Spanish are subject to great variability in features across dialects. Variability also characterizes bilingual acquisition and especially clitic doubling structures in language contact contexts. We focus on the distribution of clitics and Differential Object Marking (DOM) in clitic doubling structures among…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Indian Languages, Spanish, Second Language Learning
A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Peruvian Deaf Community
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Parks, Elizabeth; Parks, Jason – Sign Language Studies, 2010
A sociolinguistic survey of the sign language used by the deaf communities of Peru was conducted in November and December of 2007. For eight weeks, our survey team visited six deaf communities in the cities of Lima, Arequipa, Cusco, Trujillo, Chiclayo, and Iquitos. Using sociolinguistic questionnaires and recorded text testing (RTT) tools, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Sociolinguistics