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Spanish in New York [electronic resource] : language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity /
by Otheguy, Ricardo; Zentella, Ana Celia.
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BookSeries: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199918621 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Spanish language -- Provincialisms -- New York (State) -- New York | Spanish language -- Pronoun | Spanish language -- Dialects -- New York (State) -- New York | Bilingualism -- New York (State) -- New YorkOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Also issued in print format.Summary: 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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