The multivariate analysis showed that several linguistic variables (e.g.
Results indicate an overall overt pronoun rate of 27% for Mexicans in Roswell, which is higher than what has been reported for monolingual Mexican Spanish. English proficiency, age, gender, LOR, AOA), and then analyzed using mixed-effects multivariate analysis in Rbrul (Johnson 2009). person/number, switch reference, tense-mood-aspect ), morphological ambiguity, polarity, specificity) as well as language-external (social) variables (e.g. Tokens of subject pronouns from the interviews were coded for language-internal (linguistic) variables previously shown to constrain subject expression (e.g. is 12 years, and their average age of arrival (AOA) is 27. The speakers' average length of residency (LOR) in the U.S. The current study examines subject expression among 20 Mexican immigrants using sociolinguistic interview data. The city of Roswell in particular represents this demographic shift in the Southeast, making it an ideal test site for emerging bilingual speech communities. Latin American immigration to the Southeast has led to recent demographic shift in this region and substantial Spanish-speaking populations are emerging that historically were not part of the Southeast. Spanish, specifically regarding the linguistic processes at work in recent language contact situations. Therefore, the present investigation seeks to examine understudied varieties of U.S.
has not received as much scholarly attention. While most research on Spanish has been carried out in regions such as the Southwest and Northeast, the Southeastern U.S. Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in the city of Roswell, an exurb of Atlanta, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject expression. This dissertation examines language contact between Spanish and English in the Southeastern U.S.
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