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Publication details [#40537]

Flores-Ferrán, Nydia. 2004. Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans: Can we rest the case of English contact? Language Variation and Change 16 (1) : 49–73.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language use | pronoun

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines how Puerto Rican residents in New York City use overt subject personal pronouns (SPPs), and describes each immigrant group's patterns. There appears to be little evidence left in favor of an English contact hypothesis.