Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity
by
Ricardo Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
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...