Spanish and Ladino in Contact in the United States

Author:

Kirschen Bryan1

Affiliation:

1. Binghamton University , Binghamton , NY , USA

Abstract

Abstract This study explores contact between Ladino-speaking Sephardim and Spanish-speaking Latinos in New York City and Los Angeles, home to two of the largest factions of each population in the United States. While the retention of postalveolar sibilants [ʒ, dʒ, ʃ] in Ladino, corresponding to velar [x] in Spanish, helps distinguish these varieties, research has demonstrated cases where Sephardim implement the latter phone in lieu of one of the former. That such contact-induced change is a result of interaction between Sephardim and Latinos is further examined in this research. Twenty-five speakers of Ladino participated in two oral-production tasks: within-group and between-group testing. In the former, informants were paired with another speaker of Ladino; in the latter, they were paired with a speaker of Spanish. Data reveal that informants replace postalveolar sibilants with velar [x] at a rate of 18.2% within group and 76.5% between group, when direct equivalencies exist. Statistical analysis demonstrates that production of velar [x], the dependent variable, is conditioned by several independent variables, both social (age, gender, city of residence, interlocutor) and linguistic (type of lexical correspondence and origin of lexicon). Subsequent discussion considers the role of accommodation in determining the ways in which speakers select and implement variation in their speech.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Reference53 articles.

1. Benardete, Maír José. 1953. Hispanic culture and character of the Sephardic Jews. Boulder, CO: Miner and Journal Inc.

2. Ben-Ur, Aviva. 1998. ‘We speak and write the language against our will’: Jews, Hispanics, and the dilemma of Ladino-speaking Sephardim in early twentieth-century New York. American Jewish Archives 50(1/2). 131–142.

3. Bunis, David. 1982. Types of non regional variation in early modern Eastern spoken Judezmo. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 37. 41–71. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.1982.37.41.

4. Bunis, David. 2001. On the incorporation of Slavisms in the grammatical system of Yugoslavian Judezmo. In Moskovich Wolf (ed.), Jews and Slavs, vol. 9, 325–337. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press.

5. Bunis, David. 2013. Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo), Hebrew component. In Geoffrey Khan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, vol. 2, 421–427. Leiden: Brill.

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3