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/S/ in Central American Spanish.
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1985
Describes the behavior of the phoneme /s/ in Central American Spanish by comparing the speech patterns of residents of Guatemala City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, San Jose, and Managua. Considers the possible diachronic processes which could have given rise to the current configurations and the theoretical consequences implied by the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Variation
Binarity and Portuguese Vowel Raising
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Lipski, John M. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Revised version of a paper read at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Quebec, May 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
Modern Spanish Once-Removed in Philippine Creole Spanish: The Case of Zamboangueno.
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Lipski, John M. – Language in Society, 1987
Explores the status of the Zamboangueno dialect, discusses the various stages of decreolization in the direction of Spanish, and suggests possible avenues for the continued introduction of elements from an acrolect which, for all intents and purposes, is no longer generally available to residents of Zamboanga, Philippines. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries
Beyond the Isogloss: Trends in Hispanic Dialectology.
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1989
An overview of contemporary Hispanic dialectology, focusing on phonological phenomena, syntax, classification schemes, and bilingual communities, demonstrates that dialectology has long ceased to be the collection of innumerable surface deviations. It is suggested that dialectology is a theoretical discipline searching for universal principles to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Hispanic American Culture, Language Classification
Spanish Linguistics: The Past 100 Years: Retrospective and Bibliography.
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1998
Examines the field of Spanish linguistics over 100 years, subdividing Spanish linguistics into several subdisciplines: historical grammar, descriptive phonetics, Spanish phonology, contrastive structures, descriptive grammar, Spanish syntax, specific Spanish dialectology, Spanish in Africa and Asia, sociolinguistics of Spanish-speaking societies,…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries