José Esteban Hernández
List of John Benjamins publications for which José Esteban Hernández plays a role.
Articles
2010 6. The truth about verdad: Its discursive uses and its modal-epistemic value Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts, Koike, Dale and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Chapter
Speech data are used to analyze the discursive uses of verdad, which differ from the more conventional syntactic functions as subject and object within the noun phrase. We show that speakers use verdad as a marker that enables the organization and flow of discourse. As a discursive strategy, verdad… read more
2007 18. Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, Potowski, Kim and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 327–341 | Article
Studies on dialect accommodation, focusing on the acquisition of new features, have found age of arrival to be a significant factor in acquisition patterns (e.g. Chambers 1992). Regarding /s/ reduction among Salvadorans in Houston, quantitative analysis shows that accommodation may also involve the… read more