Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from December 1 2005

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from December 1 2005

Generation and Spanish language use in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This article presents preliminary results from two long-term, mixed design qualitative and quantitative studies of Spanish language usage in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. In these two research series, interview data were...

Syllable-initial /s/ in Traditional New Mexican Spanish: linguistic factors favoring reduction ahina.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This study presents results of the first large-scale (N = 5633), empirical analysis of syllable-initial /s/ reduction in TRADITIONAL NEW MEXICAN SPANISH. The variable aspiration and deletion of syllable-initial /s/, occurring in...

Aggravation and disagreement: a case study of a bilingual, cross-sex dispute in a Phoenix classroom.(Case study)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This article examines disagreement and aggravation in bilingual children's cross-sex, classroom interaction by bringing together research on children's language, bilingualism and gender. A conversation analytic approach is employed to...

'I'm not Mexican ... pero soy mexicano': linguistic context of labeling among Mexican Americans in Texas.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Previous research on racial/ethnic labeling among Latino populations in the U.S. has explored the continuing salience of racial/ethnic identities, and how these identities vary considerably by factors such as language use, national...

Todavia decimos 'nosotros [los] mexicanos': construction of identity labels among nuevo mexicanos.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. The use of identity labels among the Spanish-speaking population of New Mexico has been singled out as particularly problematical. The position of a number of historians and cultural critics has been that the use of the term Spanish...

Genres and genre chains: post-process perspectives on heritage language writing in a South Texas setting.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. The present paper seeks to identify how discursive strategies of cohesion transfer across genres and across languages in heritage language writing. I focus on the lexical cohesion strategies of repetition, synonymy, and...

Out with the old, in with the new? recent trends in Spanish language use in Colorado.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Census measures of count, density, loyalty and retention (Hudson, Hernandez-Chavez, and Bills 1995) among Spanish speakers in Colorado over the 1980-2000 Census periods show marked and rapid language shift throughout the state. While...

Acculturation and communicative need in the process of language shift: the case of an Arizona community.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This study looks at the lesser-known variables of acculturation and communicative need in an effort to better understand their influence in the process of language shift. Using a sociolinguistic approach, Spanish language use by...

Language maintenance among the children of immigrants: a comparison of border states with other regions of the U.S.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. The impact of diatopia, geographic location, on the maintenance and loss of non-English languages in the U.S. represents one area that has received scant study in the literature. However, striking demographic changes in certain...

A historical perspective on Spanish in the California borderlands.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This paper provides a historical perspective of Spanish in the U.S.-Mexico border by focusing on seventy-two unpublished documents written in the San Diego area in the 19th century, before and after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of...

Language instrumentality in southern New Mexico: implications for the loss of Spanish in the Southwest.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. U.S. Census data indicate that the majority of those of Spanish-speaking descent in this country continue to speak Spanish. At the same time, many researchers have documented the shift from Spanish to English in this group, and have...

An initial examination of Southwest Spanish vowels.(Report)
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This article investigates the Spanish vowel system of Southwest Spanish speakers through an acoustic examination of F1 and F2. The corpus is based on a semi-spontaneous narrative by four female speakers. Repeated measurements of all...

Introduccion a la linguistica espanola.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Introduccion a la linguistica espanola. By MILTON M. AZEVEDO. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc./Prentice Hall, 2005. Pp. xxi, 431. ISBN 0-13-110959-6. Workbook and Answer Key, by FRANCISCA GONZALEZ FLORES....