La producción de significado y la construcción de la identidad social en el uso humorístico del lenguaje
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Radical bilingualism in Junot Díaz’s texts
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper analyzes Junot Díaz’s most recent works The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007. The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead) and This is How You Lose Her (2012. This is how you lose her. New York: Riverhead) by using Muysken’s (2000. Bilingual speech. A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge: CUP) typology of code-switching...
De la consecución a la contraexpectación: la construccionalización de lograr/conseguir + infinitivo
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Este artículo describe el desarrollo histórico de las construcciones lograr/conseguir+inf (p. ej., Pedro ha logrado ganar el premio). Basándonos en el análisis de casi 3000 ocurrencias fechadas entre 1700 y 2005, mostramos que lograr/conseguir+inf han experimentado un proceso de construccionalización, por el cual, desde significados de consecución ...
Dolores Corbella Alejandro Fajardo: Español y portugués en contacto: préstamos léxicos e interferencias
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Language ideologies, family language policy, and a changing societal context in Kansas
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper examines the language ideologies among parents of Mexican family origin from Garden City, Kansas, and considers the ways in which Latinxs from different sociolinguistic generations have responded to an evolving societal context when making decisions about language use within the family. The analysis is based on 24 video-recorded intervie...
Sintaxis y pragmática del ser como focalizador y las seudohendidas en Colombia (Barranquilla)
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Las cláusulas seudohendidas (SH) y con ser como focalizador (SF) se han estudiado en el español de Colombia, Venezuela, la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, desde perspectivas dialectales, sociolingüísticas y formalistas. A pesar de que el español de Colombia y de Venezuela son referentes obligatorios en los trabajos sobre el SF, son escasas las ...
Sandro Sessarego Fernando Tejedo-Herrero: Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
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I’ve heard that one before: Phonetic reduction in speech production as a possible contributing factor in perceptual illu...
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This study probed the relationship between productive phonotactic repair and speech production, by asking whether the natural variability found in speech, through phonetic reduction, may include apparent illicit sequences requiring repair, even though the target words are licit. Spanish productively repairs word-initial /s/-consonant clusters (#sC)...
Duration of syllable nuclei in Spanish
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
In many languages, vowel duration is modulated by syllable structure — a phenomenon known as vowel compression — so that vowels are shorter in syllables with more segments than in syllables with fewer segments. Most instrumental evidence to date has reported an effect, in many languages, of the presence (and complexity) of a coda, and some studies ...
On the use of uno in Colombian Spanish: the role of transitivity
Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Our goal is to explore the intersection of two bodies of literature, namely, the one on impersonal constructions with an emphasis on uno ‘one’, and the one on the effect of transitivity and the focus of attention on the distribution of overt vs. null pronouns, where it has been shown that overt pronominal subjects are disfavored in transitive conte...
