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  • Cuban Spanish Dialectology

    Variation, Contact, and Change

    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, ... Read more

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  • Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish

    A Cross-Dialectal Perspective

    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spanish in New York

    Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity

    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America, as well as the extent ... Read more

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  • Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

    A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistic Aspects of Brazilian Portuguese: R Deletion

    by Leonardo Reis ...
    This book brings attention to R deletion around the world, mainly in Brazilian Portuguese in the city of Belo Horizonte, where the occurrence is mostly found. The study focuses on the sociolinguistic and phonetic impact of R deletion in Brazilian Portuguese. R deletion is an old phenomenon originating in Vulgar Latin. This phenomenon is seen as a characteristic of the lower-class population. Does ... Read more

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  • The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works.Each chapter presents an original study that supports the ... Read more

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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

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  • Processing Instruction

    Theory, Research, and Commentary

    Edited by BIll VanPatten ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
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    "Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics

    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition.Essential reference work for ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

    $48.00 USD