Spanish language and sociolinguistic analysis / edited by Sandro Sessarego, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Fernando Tejedo-Herrero.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Quantitative analysis in language variation and change -- Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics -- Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish -- On the tenacity of Andean Spanish -- Spanish and Valencian in contact -- Children's Spanish subject pronoun expression: The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad -- Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish -- On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish -- Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán -- Bilingualism and aspiration -- Spanish and Portuguese parallels -- The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay -- A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals -- Social factors in semantic change -- Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts -- "Trabajar es en español, en ladino es lavorar."

"This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different formal, experimental, and corpus-based standpoints. The volume is organized around six thematic sections: (i) Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics; (ii) Bilingualism; (iii) Language Acquisition; (iv) Phonological Variation; (v) Morpho-Syntactic Variation; and (vi) Lexical Variation. As a whole, this collection reflects an array of approaches and analyses that show how in its variation across speakers, speech communities, linguistic contexts, communicative situations, dialects, and time, the Spanish language provides an immense wealth of data to challenge accepted linguistic views and shape new theoretical proposals in the field of language variation and change."--Publisher's description.

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