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Direct linkRohena-Madrazo, Marcos – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation presents an instrumental study of variation in fricative voicing in Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS), particularly with respect to the devoicing change of the postalveolar fricative: /y/greater than/[function of]/. It proposes a novel way of determining the completion of this change by comparing the percentage voicing of the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Middle Class, Social Differences, Socioeconomic Background
Varra, Rachel Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York. English-origin lexical material was extracted from a stratified sample of 146 Spanish-speaking informants of different ages, national origins, classes, etc., living in New York City. ANOVAs and Pearson correlations determined whether lexical borrowing frequency and the type…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Language Research, Language Proficiency, Spanish
Herring, William Rodney, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A number of arguments appeared in the late-nineteenth-century United States about "correctness" in language, arguments for and against enforcing a standard of correctness and arguments about what should count as correct in language. Insofar as knowledge about and facility with "correct" linguistic usage could affect one's standing in the social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Language Planning, Rhetoric, Linguistics
