Elena Kireva

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Kireva plays a role.

Articles

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
Fischer, Susann, Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva 2014 Towards a typological classification of Judeo-Spanish: Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmoStability 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
Pešková, Andrea, Ingo Feldhausen, Elena Kireva and Christoph Gabriel 2012 Diachronic prosody of a contact variety: Analyzing Porteño Spanish spontaneous speechMultilingual 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