Publications

Publication details [#53634]

Erker, Daniel G. 2010. A subsegmental approach to coda /s/ weakening in Dominican Spanish. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (203) : 9–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

description | language change | language use | language variety | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish, Dominican

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This subsegmental analysis of coda /s/ weakening in the speech of five Dominican Spanish speaking women, provides a more exact picture of the Spanish of Dominicans in New York, and a model for increased descriptive and explanatory efficiency in the overall study of Spanish.