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A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Final /S/ In Miami Cuban Spanish, Andrew Lynch
A Sociolinguistic Analysis Of Final /S/ In Miami Cuban Spanish, Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This study analyzes the variation of syllable- and word-final /s/ among two generations of Cubans in Miami, Florida (USA): older, early exile immigrants who arrived in Miami as adults in the 1960s and 1970s, and young Miami-born Cubans whose maternal and paternal grandparents immigrated to Miami from Cuba prior to 1980. Since sibilant weakening is generally considered to be an ongoing language change in Caribbean Spanish, it was hypothesized that the young generation of English-dominant bilinguals would present with much higher rates of aspiration and deletion, in keeping with Carmen Silva-Corvalán’s (1994) hypothesis that linguistic changes are accelerated in situations …
The Subjunctive In Miami Cuban Spanish: Bilingualism, Contact And Language Variability (Ph.D. Dissertation, University Of Minnesota), Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This sociolinguistic study offers an account of the situation of bilingual Miami and analyzes the usage of subjunctive verb forms across three generations of Miami Cuban Spanish speakers.
Exploring Turn At Talk In Spanish: Native And Nonnative Speaker Interactions, Andrew Lynch
Exploring Turn At Talk In Spanish: Native And Nonnative Speaker Interactions, Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This preliminary study highlights the demonstrated gains in conversational competence of three Spanish L2 learners who participated in a 10-week university immersion program. The analyses considered turn-taking and discourse structure, comparing the learners’ task-based conversational interactions in L2 Spanish with separate interactions in their L1 English and the interactions of a group of Spanish native speakers. Although the findings suggest that during the immersion experience the learners made gains in L2 conversational competence with respect to pausing and turn length, their development of turn-taking organization and discourse structure reflected an approximation to their own L1 behavioral norms rather than those …