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Hammond, Robert M. – 1976
It has been reported (Terrell 1974) that in Cuban Spanish word-final /s/ aspiration is generally not affected by grammatical constraints, except for determiners in prevocalic environments. However, deletion of /s/, according to Terrell, is correlated with morphological classes and grammatical function, and is constrained by functional…
Descriptors: Cubans, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Grammar
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Lope Blanch, Juan M. – Revista de Filologia Espanola, 1967
Spanish spoken in Mexico City is influenced considerably more by indigenous dialects than by archaic or present usage of peninsular Spanish. Six areas in particular fall under this influence: (1) the phoneme "s", treated as a palative and fricative sound, (2) voiced "s", which is dental alveolar and affricate, (3) "t"…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
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Morales, Amparo – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the Puerto Rican dialect and its peculiar placement of subject pronouns. Notes the linguistic variety in the dialect as well as its use of verbs connotating mental and communicative activity and constructions of relativity. These distinctions give rise to the functional hypothesis to account for the peculiarities of Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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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
Ewton, Ralph W., Jr., Ed.; Ornstein, Jacob, Ed. – 1970
The eleven essays in the present volume are by faculty members at the University of Texas at El Paso and deal generally with issues peculiar to the American Southwest. It is hoped, however, that the collection contains "enough that is of universal interest to avoid the taint of parochialism." Essays discuss (1) problems involved in teaching in…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Contrastive Linguistics
Jacobson, Rodolfo – 1976
The objectives of this study were to examine a body of data collected by five graduate students at the University of Texas at San Antonio and to determine, after a careful analysis of the transcribed utterances, whether all instances of language alternations can be truly considered code-switching strategies and whether those that can be so…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies, Dialects
Bowen, J. Donald, Ed.; Ornstein, Jacob, Ed. – 1976
The Spanish dialects of the Southwest United States have received little serious attention until recently. The present volume contains studies designed to contribute to the understanding and acceptance of Southwest Spanish. The book consists of the following chapters: (1) "Linguistic Diversity in Southwest Spanish," by Garland D. Bills…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies, Dialects
Hernandez-Chavez, Eduardo, Ed.; And Others – 1975
The following articles are included in this anthology on Chicano speech: (1) "Mexican Spanish," D.N. Cardenas; (2) "The Archaic and the Modern in the Spanish of New Mexico," J. Ornstein; (3) "Problemas Lexicograficos del Espanol del Sudoeste," A.M. Espinosa, Jr.; (4) "Associative Interference in New Mexican Spanish," J.B. Rael; (5) "Some Aspects…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
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Eddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This is the seventeenth in a series of catalogues of documents in the ERIC system that are of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" from January through June, 1976. The list is compiled from all of the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
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Eddy, Peter A., Comp.; McLane, Kathleen, Comp. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
This is the sixteenth in a series of catalogues of documents of interest to teachers and researchers in foreign languages and linguistics that have been processed into the ERIC system. The documents cited in the present list appeared in the monthly ERIC abstract journal "Resources in Education" (RIE) from July through December 1975. The list is…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Biculturalism