Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from December 2002

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from December 2002

Case systems in contact: syntactic and lexical case in bilingual child language.
December 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. This study examined effects of language contact and attrition on the Hungarian morphological case system in Hungarian-English bilingual children's speech production. To discover whether lexico-semantic and grammatical features are...

The media, marketing and critical mass: portents of linguistic maintenance.
December 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Sociolinguistic studies paint a grim picture of the probability of long-term survival for Spanish in the United States. At the same time, market research suggests that commercial ventures, particularly the Spanish-language media, may...

Disentangling the necessarily entangled: the phonology and phonetics of Spanish spirantization.
December 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Previous accounts have treated Spanish spirantization either as a purely phonological process or as a purely phonetic one. Each of these approaches, however, is inadequate on its own. In this paper a new analysis of Spanish...

Vowel mutability: the case of monolingual Spanish listeners and bilingual Spanish-English listeners.
December 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Do consonants and vowels differ in their influence on lexical access to spoken words.? Van Ooijen (1996) introduced a new task, the word reconstruction task, for exploring this question. Participants are presented a spoken non-word...

Linguistic and cognitive development in the writing of middle-grade English language learners.
December 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. This study investigates the writing development exhibited in essays written four months apart on two topics by 55 middle-grade (sixth through eighth), primarily Hispanic English language learners. Five measures of writing development...

Documenting the colonial experience, with special regard to Spanish in the American Southwest.
December 1, 2002... Ed. by BARBARA DE MARCO and JERRY R, CRADDOCK. Special Issue in Two Parts of Romance Philology, 53 (1999-2000). This two-part Special Issue of Romance Philology published by Brepols devotes the journal's annual output to the Spanish...

A Phonological Model for Intonation Without Low Tone.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... By MERCEDES CABRERA-ABREU. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 2000. Pp. vii, 165. Paper $18.00. In A phonological model for intonation without low tone, Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu takes an approach to intonational phonology that...

English Language Teaching in Its Social Context: A Reader.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Ed. by CHRISTOPHER N. CANDLIN and NEIL MERCER. New York: Routledge, 2001. $27.95 Embodying multiple perspectives, this book explores the roles that social factors related to the teaching of English play in the realization of second...