Author:
Potowski Kim,Torres Lourdes
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter summarizes the study’s findings and makes suggestions for the continued vitality of Spanish in Chicago and in the United States. It starts with a discussion of how to measure Spanish and support its vitality. The chapter then provides a summary of the study’s findings. It discusses conclusions about generation and proficiency, differences in regional groups, evidence of dialect leveling, and evidence of convergence for the five linguistic features analyzed: lexical familiarity, proportional use of so versus entonces, number of codeswitches and percentage of English use, production of subjunctive morphology in obligatory and variable contexts, and two phonological features, the weakening of coda /s/ and the velarization of /r̄/. For MexiRicans, it additionally discusses evidence of a “mother factor. The chapter closes with suggestions for areas of further research.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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