Publications

Publication details [#53635]

Lapidus Shin, Naomi. 2010. Efficiency in lexical borrowing in New York Spanish. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (203) : 45–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | borrowing | communicative efficiency | language variety | loanword

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Focusing on loanwords that do not fill conceptual gaps, this study shows that communicative efficiency, and in particular savings in word-lenght, constitutes an important factor in accounting for English lexical borrowing in spoken New York Spanish.