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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
The Rise and Fall of Unstressed Vowel Reduction in the Spanish of Cusco, Peru: A Sociophonetic Study
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Delforge, Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation describes the phonetic characteristics of a phenomenon that has previously been denominated "unstressed vowel reduction" in Andean Spanish based on the spectrographic analysis of 40,556 unstressed vowels extracted from the conversational speech of 150 residents of the city of Cusco, Peru. Results demonstrate that this…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Vowels, Form Classes (Languages)
Two Words of Chinese Origin in Present-Day Peruvian Spanish
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Horton, James F. – Hispania, 1977
The origin, etymology and phonology of two words of Chinese origin found in Peruvian Spanish are outlined. The words, "chifa" and "chaufa," derive from Cantonese words for "rice" and have been adapted into Spanish. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics