Elena Kireva
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Kireva plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 15. Portuguese remnants in the Spanish of Olivenza (Extremadura): Exploring vowel raising, global speech rhythm, and intonation Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 421–450 | Chapter
Olivenza Spanish (OS), spoken in the border zone between Extremadura and Alentejo, is characterized by salient phonological features that can plausibly be interpreted as long-term effects of Portuguese-Spanish bilingualism. We present the results of a formant analysis of unstressed /o/, which is… read more
2014 Towards a typological classification of Judeo-Spanish: Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmo Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 77–108 | Article
Judeoespanyol (Judeo-Spanish) is one of the names given to those varieties of
Spanish spoken by descendants of the Jews that were expelled from Spain in
1492. There is neither a common designation nor is it spoken in one specific
area, nor is there any agreement on how to classify it. By some… read more
2012 Diachronic prosody of a contact variety: Analyzing Porteño Spanish spontaneous speech Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 365–390 | Article
This paper presents a micro-diachronic study of the prosody of Porteño, the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires, by comparing spontaneous speech data collected in 1983 with comparable recordings made in 2008. Porteño Spanish is said to be influenced by Italian due to massive immigration between… read more