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Kontra, Miklos – Language Variation and Change, 1993
A formal reading of word groups and a same/different listening test revealed that Hungarian Americans in South Bend, Indiana, exhibit a continuum in a short front unrounded low vowel phoneme, showing important differences between the informant's perception and production. The Hungarian-American and metropolitan Hungarian data were compared to…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Hungarian, Language Research
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Mendieta, Eva; Molina, Isabel – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2000
Analyzes Spanish lexical data recorded in sociolinguistic interviews with Hispanic community members in Northwest Indiana. Examined how prevalent English is in the spoken Spanish of this community; what variety of Spanish is regarded prestigious; whether lexical forms establish the prestige dialect adopted by speakers of other dialects; the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans, Interviews, Language Variation