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Erker, Daniel Gerard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines a major linguistic event underway in New York City. Of its 10 million inhabitants, nearly a third are speakers of Spanish. This community is socially and linguistically diverse: Some speakers are recent arrivals from Latin America while others are lifelong New Yorkers. Some have origins in the Caribbean, the historic source of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonemes
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Torres, Lourdes – World Englishes, 1989
Examines code mixing and borrowing across two generations of New York Puerto Ricans, and explores the possibility of existence of a lifecycle of language use in the community. (26 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)