This study uses the social media platform Twitter to analyze geographic variation in the use of voseo throughout the Spanish-speaking world. It forms part of the first-ever voseo census (Morgan et al., 2017a, 2017b), which triangulates multiple sources to calculate the number of voseantes worldwide… read more
This paper provides a phonetic analysis of intervocalic /r/ in lower-class Highland Bolivian Spanish. Results show that in this dialect rhotic assibilation has progressed beyond the fricative [ř] already reported by several scholars (cf. Navarro Tomás 1980; Canfield 1981; Lipski 1994; Sessarego… read more
In studies of T/V address systems, research typically ignores plural forms in favor of their singular counterparts. We show that there is widespread asymmetry between singular and plural T/V forms in Castilian Spanish, and that the historically T plural vosotros often serves as the plural of both… read more