Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from June 2007

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from June 2007

2006 presidential address: indigenous languages and Spanish in the United States: how can/do linguists serve communities?
June 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. This paper presents two projects that combine research with community needs. The first project is an effort to develop a community-based team to work with archival recordings of Tohono O'odham. These recordings are located throughout...

Spanish/English codeswitching in service encounters: accommodation to the customer's language choice and perceived linguistic affiliation *.(Report)
June 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. This paper reports on data collected in service encounters in New York and California. Assuming the role of customer, fieldworkers visited businesses and addressed service workers in Spanish. In the majority of 715 encounters,...

On the development of pronominal clitics and affixes in Uto-Aztecan.(Report)
June 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. This paper documents the distribution of bound pronominal subjects and objects in Uto-Aztecan and addresses the likely historical development of both within the family. After critically reviewing a prominent proposal on the historical...

Source language patterns as determinants of borrowing behavior: single and collocation borrowings in Spanish in New York.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Abstract: This paper addresses a new finding regarding the specific form taken by certain lexical borrowings in the Spanish spoken in New York City, using as data 30 sociolinguistic interviews from the Otheguy--Zentella corpus. Some English...

On the phonological phrasing patterns in the Spanish of Lima, Peru.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Abstract. The present study, inspired by Prieto's (2006) work on Peninsular Spanish, analyzes experimental data of phonological phrasing in the Spanish of Lima, Perti, via Optimality Theory (OT) (McCarthy and Prince 1993, Prince and Smolensky...

Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language. BY MICHAEL HOEY. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 202. In Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language, Hoey argues for a new theory of lexicon, and in so doing, a new theory...

The College Administrator's Survival Guide.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The College Administrator's Survival Guide. BY C.K. GUNSALUS. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006. ISBN 0-674-02315-3. Pp 244. Sticky situations, or, as author Tina Gunsalus refers to them, yucky problems (5), abound in academe. People whisper...