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Contact-Induced Changes in Word Order and Intonation in the Spanish of New York City Bilinguals
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Barrera-Tobon, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the variable word order and prosody of copular constructions ("Nicolas es feliz" versus "'Feliz' es Nicolas," "Es Nicolas 'feliz,'" "Es 'feliz' Nicolas," "Nicolas is 'happy'") in the Spanish of first- and second-generation…
Descriptors: Word Order, Intonation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
An Acoustically Based Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variable Coda /s/ Production in the Spanish of New York City
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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
Measuring Attitudinal Change: A Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Investigation into Perceptions of African American English and Academic English
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Latterman, Caroline Kennelly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This experiment measured teachers' attitudes towards African American English and Academic English. Participants were graduate students of Education at a college in New York City. They completed a paper-and-pencil questionnaire that assessed their explicit attitudes towards the two varieties, as well as a Psycholinguistic Experiment that was…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Psycholinguistics, Teacher Attitudes