Ryan M. Bessett
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryan M. Bessett plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 16. Testing English influence on first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 355–372 | Chapter
The present investigation seeks to explore the impact that contact with English has on the variation of first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish by analyzing sociolinguistic interviews from sixteen monolinguals from Sonora, Mexico and sixteen bilinguals from Arizona,… read more
2017 Language choice and accommodation: Casual encounters in San Ysidro and Nogales Spanish in Context 14:1, pp. 78–98 | Article
The present study investigates language choice in two bilingual speech communities in the United States: Nogales, AZ and San Ysidro, CA. Ethnically distinct fieldworkers approached members of these two communities under the guise of being lost tourists in order to engage in casual speech… read more