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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Spanish in Chicago
  name:
    name part: Potowski, Kim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Torres, Lourdes
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, a site where Spanish is a minority language in contact with dominant English. The book's goal is to describe the oral Spanish of Chicago based Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and MexiRicans across three generations and identify patterns of change and propose explanations for them. It describes what happens when speakers who use different varieties of Spanish come into contact with each other in Chicago. The study contributes to discussions of possible language or dialect contact outcomes such as linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation and language loss. The book starts with an introduction to the history of the Puerto Rican and Mexican communities in Chicago, including histories of settlement, shifting demographics, contact and engagement and mutual social and linguistic attitudes. It features an analysis of five linguistic features, lexical familiarity, proportional use of "so" vs "entonces," number of codeswitches and percent English use, production of subjunctive morphology in obligatory and variable contexts and two phonological features, the weakening of coda /s/ and the velarization of /r/. The analyses consider the role of proficiency and generation in the production of all five of these features. The book then offers an extensive discussion of the factors that underlie the development of diverse Spanish proficiency levels within Latino Chicago and offers suggestions on how to promote Spanish language vitality across generations in the future. The book's findings are compared to other foundational studies of Spanish in the United States.
  table of contents: Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago : contact and loss -- The Chicago Spanish (CHISPA) corpus -- Lexical familiarity -- Discourse markers -- Codeswitching -- Subjunctive -- Phonology -- Factors underlying Spanish development -- Conclusions.
  note: Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-327) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-il
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Spanish language
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Spanish language
    topic: Variation
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Languages in contact
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Bilingualism
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: Puerto Ricans
    geographic: United States
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Languages
  classification: PC4829.I45 P68 2023
  classification: 467/.977311
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220711
    record change date: 20240112153406.5
    record identifier: in00004763278