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Peer reviewedGarcia, MaryEllen – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1998
Literature regarding Southwest Spanish suggests gender agreement with nouns is being lost. A study of recorded speech from 11 Spanish speakers in San Antonio (Texas) shows gender agreement is neither random nor largely nonstandard, suggesting gender marking is a rule still observed in this dialect. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Variation
