Journal article
Assibilation of /-r/ and migration among Mexicans
Language variation and change, v 16(1), pp 17-30
Mar 2004
Abstract
This article examines the assibilation of the vibrant
/-r/ in word final position in Mexican Spanish in an
urban and a rural community in Moroleón (Guanajuato, Mexico) and
Kennett Square (Pennsylvania, United States). The data was collected
according to traditional sociolinguistic methodology during 1995 and
1996. The analysis of the data uses linguistic factors combined with
socioeconomic factors that include movement seen as social mobility
and/or migratory tendencies in the population. Through the
intertwining of these factors interesting tendencies can be observed:
female preference for the innovative and prestigious variant as a way
to acquire power in a society where women do not have a voice to claim
or seek social mobility and power; the influence of the linguistic
market in the community, and the effects of accommodation.My thanks go to the anonymous reader who
reviewed this paper. I am responsible for any shortcomings found
here.
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Details
- Title
- Assibilation of /-r/ and migration among Mexicans
- Creators
- Maríadelaluz Matus-Mendoza - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Language variation and change, v 16(1), pp 17-30
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 14
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Global Studies and Modern Languages
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34248699539
- Other Identifier
- 991019173683004721