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Mendieta-Lombardo, Eva; Cintron, Zaida A. – Hispania, 1995
Presents a model of the speaker's sociopsychological motivations when he engages in code-switching (CS). The use of CS can be interpreted as a marked or an unmarked choice of discourse mode. (38 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Context Clues, Discourse Analysis
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Davies, Mark – Hispania, 1995
Examines a computer-based corpus that provides the data for a comprehensive investigation of clitic climbing in written and spoken modern Spanish. The results are based on nearly 15,000 tokens with 32 different main verbs from a computer corpus of 3.5 million words from ten countries. Clitic climbing is more common in spoken than in written…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis, Language Variation, Models