Spanish Dialect Contact in the U.S.

Here you will find information about my work on Spanish dialect contact in the United States. 

Conference Presentations

Buck, M. (2024, September 27). Lexical leveling or limited exposure: Future directions for Spanish dialect contact in the U.S. [Conference presentation]. 53rd Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

References: 


Aaron, J. E., & Hernández, J. E. (2007). Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation. In K. Potowski & R. Cameron (Eds.), Spanish in contact: Policy, social and linguistic inquiries (Impact: Studies in Language and Society 22) (pp. 329–344). John Benjamins.


Alfaraz, G. G. (2014). Dialect perceptions in real time: A restudy of Miami-Cuban perceptions. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2(2), 74–86.


Alfaraz, G. G. (2018). Framing the diaspora and the homeland: Language ideologies in the Cuban diaspora. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2018(254), 49–69. 


Aparicio, F. R. (2019). Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago (Vol. 1). University of Illinois Press.


Barreiro, S. (2022). A sociolinguistic analysis of Salvadoran Lexical Accommodation towards Mexican Spanish [Master’s Thesis]. The Ohio State University.


Barrera-Tobón, C. (2013). Contact-induced changes in word order and intonation in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals [Doctoral Dissertation]. City University of New York.


Barrera-Tobón, C., & Raña Risso, R. (2019). Explaining pronominal subject placement variation across two generations of Caribbean Spanish speakers in New York City. In W. Valentín-Márquez & M. Gonzalez-Rivera (Eds.), Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States (p. 113). Routledge.


Barrera-Tobón, C., & Risso, R. R. (2020). Pro-drop to non-pro-drop: Question word order in New York City Caribbean Spanish bilinguals. In S. Alvord & G. Thompson (Eds.), Spanish in the United States (pp. 77–94). Routledge.


Bayley, R., Cárdenas, N. L., Schouten, B. T., & Salas, C. M. V. (2012). Spanish dialect contact in San Antonio, Texas: An exploratory study. Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 48–60.


Bills, G. D., & Vigil, N. A. (2008). The Spanish language of New Mexico and southern Colorado: A linguistic atlas. University of New Mexico Press.


Bookhamer, K. (2013). The variable grammar of the Spanish subjunctive in second-generation bilinguals in New York City [Doctoral Dissertation]. City University of New York.


Callesano, S., & Carter, P. M. (2018). Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami: Dialect variation, personality attributes and language use. Language & Communication, 67, 84–98.


Chambers, J. K. (1992). Dialect acquisition. Language, 68(4), 673–705.


del Ángel Guevara, M. E. (2023). Returning to Northern New Mexico. A Study of the Nuevomexicano Lexicon [Doctoral Dissertation]. The University of New Mexico.


Erker, D., & Reffel, M. (2021). Describing and analyzing variability in Spanish/s/: A case study of Caribbeans in Boston and New York City. In E. Nuñez-Méndez (Ed.), Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish (pp. 131–163). Routledge.


Hernández, J. E. (2002). Accommodation in a dialect contact situation. Revista de Filología y Lingüística de La Universidad de Costa Rica, 93–110.


Hernández, J. E. (2009). Measuring rates of word‐final nasal velarization: The effect of dialect contact on in‐group and out‐group exchanges. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 13(5), 583–612. 


Hernández, J. E. (2020). Language, contact, and the negotiation of Salvadoran identities in a mixed-Latino community. In S. Alvord & G. Thompson (Eds.), Spanish in the United States: Attitudes and Variation (pp. 11–30). Routledge.


O’Rourke, E., & Potowski, K. (2016). Phonetic accommodation in a situation of Spanish dialect contact: Coda /s/ and /r̄/ in Chicago. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9(2), 355–399. 


Otheguy, R., & Zentella, A. C. (2012). Spanish in New York: Language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity. Oxford University Press.


Potowski, K. (2008). “I was raised talking like my mom”: The influence of mothers in the developments of MexiRicans’ phonological and lexical features. In M. Niño-Murcia & J. Rothman (Eds.), Bilingualism and Identity. Spanish at the crossroads with other languages (pp. 201–220). John Benjamins.


Potowski, K. (2016). IntraLatino Language and Identity. John Benjamins.


Potowski, K., & Torres, L. (2023). Spanish in Chicago. Oxford University Press.


Ramos-Pellicia, M. F. (2004). Language contact and dialect contact: Cross-generational phonological variation in a Puerto Rican community in the Midwest of the United States [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University.


Ramos-Pellicia, M. F. (2007). Lorain Puerto Rican Spanish and ‘r’in three generations. Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, 53–60.


Raña Risso, R. (2010). Subject pronoun placement as evidence of contact and leveling in Spanish in New York. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2010(203).


Raña Risso, R. (2013). A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of subject pronoun placement in Spanish in New York. City University of New York.


Raymond, C. W. (2012). Generational Divisions: Dialect Divergence in a Los Angeles-Salvadoran Household. Hispanic Research Journal, 13(4), 297–316.


Rosa, J. (2014). Nuevo Chicago?: Language, diaspora, and Latina/o panethnic formations. In R. Reiter & L. Rojo (Eds.), A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora (pp. 31–47). Routledge.


Rosa, J. (2019). Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad. Oxford University Press.


Sánchez-Muñoz, A. (2017). Tempted by the Words of Another: Linguistic Choices of Chicanas/os and Other Latina/os in Los Angeles. In J. Rosales & V. Fonesca (Eds.), Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays (pp. 71–81). The Ohio State University.


Shin, N. L. (2014). Grammatical complexification in Spanish in New York: 3sg pronoun expression and verbal ambiguity. Language Variation and Change, 26(3), 303–330.


Sorenson, T. (2016). ¿De dónde sos? Differences between Argentine and Salvadoran voseo to tuteo accommodation in the United States. In M. I. Moyna & S. Rivera-Mills (Eds.), Forms of address in the Spanish of the Americas (pp. 171–196).


Sorenson, T. D. (2010). Voseo to tuteo accommodation among two Salvadoran communities in the United States [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University.


Sorenson, T. D. (2021). The dialects of Spanish: A lexical introduction. Cambridge University Press.


Tseng, A. (2019). The Ordinariness of Dialect Translinguistics in an Internally Diverse Global-City Diasporic Community. In J. Lee & S. Dovchin (Eds.), Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness (pp. 146–159). Routledge.


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Villarreal, B. M. (2014). Dialect contact among Spanish-speaking children in Los Angeles [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of California, Los Angeles.


Viner, K. M. (2016). Second-generation NYC bilinguals’ use of the Spanish subjunctive in obligatory contexts. Spanish in Context, 13(3), 343–370.


Viner, K. M. (2017). Subjunctive use in the speech of New York City Spanish heritage language bilinguals: A variationist analysis. Heritage Language Journal, 14(3), 307–333.


Viner, K. M. (2018). The optional Spanish subjunctive mood grammar of New York City heritage bilinguals. Lingua, 210, 79–94.


Viner, K. M. (2020). Comment Clauses and mood choice in New York City Spanish: Generational constraints and innovations. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 10(5), 728–744. 


Waltermire, M. (2017). At the dialectal crossroads: The Spanish of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dialectologia: Revista Electrònica, 177–197.


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