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Spanish in New York

Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945-

Spanish in New York language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity / [electronic resource] : Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource. - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics . - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.



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Spanish language--Provincialisms--New York (State)--New York.
Spanish language--Pronoun.
Spanish language--Dialects--New York (State)--New York.
Bilingualism--New York (State)--New York.

PC4829.N44 / O84 2012

467.97471