Morphophonological Variation in Urban Asturian Spanish

Morphophonological Variation in Urban Asturian Spanish
Author: Sonia Barnes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

The results reported in this dissertation indicate that speakers strategically increase or decrease the amount of Asturian features according to how Asturian or "Gijones" they want to sound, contributing to the idea that speakers actively use variation to position themselves in the social world.

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish
Author: Manuel Díaz-Campos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 042957584X

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic approaches to analyzing variation in Spanish. Divided into three sections, the book includes the most current research conducted in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics. This comprehensive volume covers phonological, morphosyntactic, social, and lexical variation in Spanish. Each section is further divided into subsections focusing on specific areas of language variation, highlighting the most salient and current developments in each subfield of Hispanic sociolinguistics. As such, this Handbook delves further into the details of topics relating to variation and change in Spanish than previous publications, with a focus on the symbolic sociolinguistic value of specific phenomena in the field. Encouraging readers to think critically about language variation, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of Hispanic sociolinguistics. The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish will be a welcome addition to specialists and students in the fields of linguistics, Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics
Author: Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351869051

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish. The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a variety of frameworks and methodological approaches, in order to presents the latest advances in the field of Puerto Rican and Caribbean linguistics. Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics brings together articles from researchers proposing new, challenging, and ground-breaking analyses on the nature of Spanish in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States.

Issues in Spanish Morphophonology

Issues in Spanish Morphophonology
Author: Obdulia Castro
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780761835318

This work utilizes an empirical and theoretical approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, such as syllable structure, stress assignment, diphthongs, and phonological processing in Spanish. Based on data from L1 and L2 environments in Spanish language acquisition, these collected articles investigate examples of morphophonological interaction in native and non-native systems by identifying similarities and differences in comprehension and incorporation. Language change and language learning are examined extensively throughout in regards to difficulties intrinsic to the learner, the learning environment, and the utilization of the language in everyday life.

Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Author: Guillermo Lorenzo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027257906

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles, like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics, but they also deal with less explored grounds, like aspect, negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician, as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations.

Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish

Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004679936

Covering all seven countries on the isthmus, this volume presents the first collection of original linguistic studies on Central American Spanish varieties, which have long been neglected in Hispanic Linguistics. The analyses in this collection span across disciplines such as sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, historical linguistics, and pragmatics. This volume bridges the gap between international and Central American scholars, as it highlights the work that has already been done by Central American scholars but is relatively unknown to scholars outside of the region. It also introduces readers to more recent work that sheds new light on Central American Spanish varieties, from both urban and rural settings as well as in bilingual communities where Spanish is in contact with indigenous languages.

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology
Author: Christoph Gabriel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110548674

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.

Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology

Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Author: Fernando Martínez-Gil
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292620

This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework of optimality theory. The book is structured around six major areas of phonological research: phonetics–phonology interface, segmental phonology, syllable structure and stress, morphophonology, language variation and change, and language acquisition, including general as well as more specialized articles. The reader is guided through the volume with the help of the introduction and a detailed index. The book will serve as core reading for advanced graduate-level phonology courses and seminars in Spanish linguistics, and in general linguistics phonology courses. It will also constitute an essential reference for researchers in phonology, phonological theory, and Spanish, and related areas, such as language acquisition, bilingualism, education, and speech and hearing science.

A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
Author: R.L. Trask
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134884206

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains over 1500 entries, providing definitions and examples, pronunciations, the earliest sources of terms and suggestions for further reading, and recommendations about competing and conflicting usages. The book focuses on non-theory-boumd descriptive terms, which are likely to remain current for some years. Aimed at students and teachers of linguistics, it allows a reader puzzled by a grammatical term to look it up and locate further reading with ease.