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language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity
1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages) : illustrations
Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America.
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Continuity, Language Contact, and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Variable Subject Pronoun Use -- 2.1 An Initial Illustration -- 2.2 A Note on Conceptualization and Accompanying Terminology -- 3. Language Contact and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York -- 3.1 Language Contact -- 3.2 Dialectal Leveling -- 3.3 Variation and Explanation in Performance Grammar -- 4. The Sample and the Corpus -- 5. Summary and Conclusions
2. Interviews and Transcripts1. Introduction -- 2. Stratification of the Sample -- 2.1 Gender -- 2.2 Age -- 2.3 National and Regional Origin -- 2.4 Generational Cohorts -- 2.5 Age of Arrival in New York -- 2.6 Years Lived in NYC -- 2.7 Immigrant Newcomers, Established Immigrants, and the NYR -- 2.8 Social Class -- 2.9 Educational Attainment -- 2.10 English Skills -- 2.11 Level of Use of Spanish -- 3. Cross-Stratification of the Sample -- 3.1 Region and Gender -- 3.2 Region and Generation -- 3.3 Region and Age of Arrival -- 3.4 Region and Years in NYC
3.5 Region and Exposure4. The Interviews and the Transcripts -- 4.1 General Characteristics of the Transcripts -- 4.2 Amount of Talk by Consultants -- 4.3 Transcription Using Conventional Orthography -- 4.4 Accepting and Rejecting Interviews -- 4.5 Labeling Interviews and Transcripts -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- 3. The Envelope of Variation and the Formation of the Corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Categorical and Variable Contexts -- 1.2 The Principle of Accountability and the Nature of Variable Data
2. Requirements for Bare Verbs to be Included in the Corpus2.1 An Available Subject Slot -- 2.2 An Ascertainable Denotational Subject -- 2.3 Denoting an Animate Entity -- 3. Requirements for Pronouns to be Included in the Corpus -- 3.1 Exclude False Starts -- 3.2 Exclude Left Dislocations -- 3.3 Exclude Logophoric X-Forms -- 3.4 Two Statistical Inconsistencies -- 4. Decisions Regarding Incorporation Based on Types of Contexts, Not on Individual Occurrences -- 5. A Fully Contextualized Illustration of Decisions Regarding the Corpus -- 6. Summary and Conclusions
4. The Pronoun Rate: Delineating New York Latino Communities1. Introduction -- 2. Similarities and Differences in the Use of Pronouns by Basic Demographic Groups -- 2.1 Gender, Age, Education, and Social Class -- 2.2 Socioeconomic Status (SES) -- 3. National and Regional Origins -- 4. Regional Differences and the Pronoun Rate in the Basic Demographic Groups -- 5. The Group and the Individual -- 6. The Corpus, the City, and the Nature of Statistical Inference -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Language Contact in Spanish in New York -- 1. Introduction
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012