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Portuguese-Spanish interfaces : diachrony, synchrony, and contact /

Western hemisphere varieties of Spanish and Portuguese show substantial similarity in the patterning of sociolinguistic variation and change. Caribbean and coastal dialects of Latin American Spanish share several variables with Brazilian Portuguese (e.g., deletion of coda -s, -r). These variables al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amaral, Patrícia Matos, 1975-, Carvalho, Ana Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Western hemisphere varieties of Spanish and Portuguese show substantial similarity in the patterning of sociolinguistic variation and change. Caribbean and coastal dialects of Latin American Spanish share several variables with Brazilian Portuguese (e.g., deletion of coda -s, -r). These variables also show similar social distribution in Hispanic and Lusophone communities: formal styles and high status speakers are consonantally conservative, while higher deletion is associated with working class speakers and informal styles. The regions that show these sociolinguistic parallels also share comm.
Notas:2. Segmental inventories of Spanish and Portuguese (with historical commentary).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 468 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270177
9027270171
9027258007
9789027258007