Language contact and dialect contact
Michelle Ramos-Pellicia
Broschiertes Buch

Language contact and dialect contact

Cross-Generational phonological variation in a Puerto Rican community in the Midwest of the United States

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The Puerto Rican migration has brought to the American melting pot many intriguing issues. Puerto Ricans are US citizens by birth, and, thus, their migration from Puerto Rico is comparable to any interstate movement within the mainland. On the other hand, their culture and language are as foreign to general American culture as the cultures and languages of many other ethnic groups that migrate from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Previous studies on Puerto Rican Spanish have focused on the variety as spoken in New York City. However, one should not assume that the findings of previou...