In a census-related study on language maintenance among the Hispanic/Latino population in the southwest United States, Hudson, Hernández-Chávez and Bills (1995) stated that, given negative correlations between language maintenance and years of education and per capita income, “educational and economic success in the Spanish origin population are purchased at the expense of Spanish language maintenance in the home” (1995: 179). While census figures from 1980 make this statement undeniable for the Southwest, the recent growth of the Spanish-language population in the United States, which has grown by a factor of ~2.5 over the last twenty years, begs a reexamination of these correlations. A recent study on the state of Colorado (McCullough & Jenkins 2005) found a correlational weakening, especially with regard to the relationship between language maintenance and median income. The current study follows the model set forth by Hudson et al. (1995) in examining the interrelationship between the measures of count, density, language loyalty and retention based on 2000 census data, as well as the relationship between these metrics and socioeconomic and demographic variables, including income and education. While some relationships existed in 2000 much in the same way that they did in the 1980 data, especially with regard to count and density, the measures of loyalty and retention saw marked reductions in their correlations with social variables.
2024. Shift Still Happens: Spanish Language Maintenance in the Face of Growth and Change in the Western United States. Languages 9:6 ► pp. 205 ff.
Lease, Sarah
2022. Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Spanish-English Bilingual Adults’ and Children’s Vocalic Realizations. Languages 7:1 ► pp. 53 ff.
Wilson, Damián Vergara & Marisol Marcin
2022. Building Connections and Critical Language Awareness between Learning Communities Collaborating across Two Distant States. Languages 7:4 ► pp. 257 ff.
2015. Spanish Is Foreign: Heritage Speakers’ Interpretations of the Introductory Spanish Language Curriculum. International Multilingual Research Journal 9:2 ► pp. 108 ff.
Alarcón, Amado & Josiah McC. Heyman
2013. Bilingual call centers at the US-Mexico border: Location and linguistic markers of exploitability. Language in Society 42:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Porcel, Jorge
2011. Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos. In The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 623 ff.
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