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Publication details [#26313]
Cameron, Richard. 1996. A community-based test of a linguistic hypothesis. Language in Society 25 (1) : 61–111.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study tests Hochberg's (1986) Functional Compensation Hypothesis, which relates frequent pronominal expression to frequent deletion of agreement marking on finite verbs in Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS). This hypothesis is dismissed as non-specific 'tú' appears to be the key to frequency differences between -s- deleting PRS and -s- conserving 'Madrid' Spanish.