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Covariation & salience in linguistic contact: a sociophonetic study of liquid variation in Boston Spanish featured image

Covariation & salience in linguistic contact: a sociophonetic study of liquid variation in Boston Spanish

A sociolinguistic variationist dissertation examining covariation across five Spanish variables in Boston's Puerto Rican and Dominican community, showing that low-salience features …

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians featured image

Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians

Presenting QP 1 results at LSA 2021.

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses featured image

English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses

Guest Lecture for Intro to Sounds class

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas

Los efectos condicionantes del verbo en el uso variable de los pronombres personales de sujeto

A cross-community study of 8,286 tokens examining how verb semantics and lexical frequency condition overt subject pronoun expression in Spanish, drawing on speakers from Colombia, …

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Rafael Orozco

El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico

A variationist study comparing null and expressed subject pronoun use among Puerto Rican Spanish speakers in Louisiana and Puerto Rico. Analysis of 2,226 tokens reveals similar …

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
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Word Order & Information Structure in Latin American Spanish

How verb type and pragmatic context shape subject-verb order acceptability across Latin American Spanish dialects.

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Subject Pronoun Expression in Puerto Rican Spanish

How grammatical and discourse constraints condition overt vs. null subject pronoun use in Puerto Rican Spanish speakers in Louisiana and Puerto Rico.

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Filled Pauses & Language Contact in Boston Spanish

How bilingual experience reshapes the vowel quality of filled pauses (uh/ah vs. eh) in Boston Spanish speakers.

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Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact

How the social noticeability of linguistic features shapes language use and adaptation in contact settings.