Spanish in Colombia and New York City

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Spanish in Colombia and New York City

Language contact meets dialectal convergence

Sociolinguistics

Author: Rafael Orozco

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Collection: IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society

Language: English

Published by: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published on: 1st March 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 209 pages

ISBN: 9789027264398


Introduction

This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City.

Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting differences in the effects of social predictors.

The book provides a window into the effects of language and dialect contact on change and serves as a model for studies comparing diasporic populations to their home speech communities.

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