Abstract:Although vos is common in speech in Medellín, it is considered non-prestigious for writing (Agudelo Montoya et al. 2016). Nonetheless, vos is an important marker of
local identity (Jang 2013) that increasingly appears in writing (Weyers 2016a). Its presence suggests a potential upward shift in its prestige. For that to happen,
favorable attitudes toward its use in writing are called for. Here we examine the linguistic attitudes of 222
medellinenses toward vos, tú, and their corresponding verb f… Show more
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