Peruvian Amazonian Spanish

Vallejos, Rosa

doi:10.1075/sic.11.3.06val

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“…Amazonian Spanish has received little attention compared to Andean Spanish. For a more detailed explanation of Amazonian Spanish grammar, please see Vallejos (2014).…”

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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

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Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages. We present a study that explores the differences between gender agreement between a determiner and a noun and gender agreement between clitics and antecedents or doubled DPs among Shipibo-Spanish speakers. The oral production data that were elicited from 17 adult Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals by using a picture-based narration task show a notable difference in the agreement patterns between nouns and determiners, and between clitics and their antecedents/doubled DPs. Similar patterns are found among five Spanish-Shipibo bilinguals who were living in the same contact situation. While the participants consistently marked strong gender agreement within the DPs, a lack of gender specification was found in the agreement between clitics and antecedents or doubled DPs in the clitic-doubling and dislocated structures. These results are not unexpected as they mirror the results from previous work, where the clitic gender does not systematically match the antecedent gender, especially with feminine antecedents or doubled DPs. Furthermore, this study confirms previous evidence that the gender-specific clitics, lo/la, have been replaced by the invariable clitic, le, in contexts where agreement with a doubled DP or an antecedent is expected. In contrast, there is evidence of agreement between determiners and nouns in this group of bilinguals. These facts allow us to conclude that, although gender is present in Shipibo-Spanish bilingual speakers’ grammar, it is largely absent and is not operative in Shipibo-Spanish speakers’ clitic agreement in oral production.

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“…Amazonian Spanish has received little attention compared to Andean Spanish. For a more detailed explanation of Amazonian Spanish grammar, please see Vallejos (2014).…”

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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

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“…Además, los hallazgos reportados aquí son consistentes con otras características no canónicas que son más frecuentes en las comunidades kukamas que en la ciudad de Iquitos (Vallejos, 2014;Vallejos y Koops, 2016). Sin embargo, puesto que en la actualidad el porcentaje de uso de la discordancia es similar en las comunidades y en la ciudad, cualquier posible efecto de contacto tendría que ser corroborado cuidadosamente con datos correspondientes a diferentes períodos históricos que nos ayuden a desentrañar la formación del español en la Amazonía de Perú.…”

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“…Ello da como resultado las siguientes posibilidades: concordancia singular (su canoa), concordancia plural (sus canoas), y discordancia plural/singular (sus canoa). La cuarta posibilidad lógica (su canoas) no ha sido documentada (Vallejos, 2014).…”

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Llegaron en sus canoa: innovación gramatical en el español de la Amazonía peruana

Vallejos

2019

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Este estudio investiga las motivaciones cognitivas y funcionales detrás del surgimiento de una construcción posesiva innovadora en el español de la Amazonía peruana. En esta variedad, el núcleo de un sintagma nominal no concuerda necesariamente en número con su modificador, cuando este es un pronombre posesivo. Así, sintagmas del tipo sus canoa son comunes en la Amazonía. Un estudio previo encontró que las probabilidades de uso de este patrón innovador aumentan cuando el pronombre hace referencia anafórica a múltiples individuos. El presente estudio examina exclusivamente contextos con poseedores múltiples para identificar los parámetros que rigen la alternancia entre patrones concordantes y discordantes. Las variables que juegan un rol son el género del hablante y la animacidad del poseedor y el poseído. El uso del patrón innovador es ligeramente más frecuente entre las mujeres, sobre todo cuando el pronombre posesivo hace referencia a múltiples entidades altas en animacidad y el sustantivo a una entidad baja en animacidad.

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“…The research on PAS has flourished in recent years (e.g., Jara 2012;Vallejos 2014;and references therein). Part of this research boom on PAS was recently compiled in two volumes edited by Fafulas (2020) and Jara et al (2023).…”

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The Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish Declaratives: An Exploration of Spontaneous Speech

García

2024

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The present study explores intonational patterns in spontaneous speech in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (PAS). The data came from 12 monolingual Spanish speakers in the city of Pucallpa, where the Spanish language has historically been in contact with the Amazonian language Shipibo-Konibo. The speakers responded to an open-ended prompt that elicited broad focus declaratives. Acoustic information from 1524 pitch accents was extracted from 194 sentences and analyzed using Praat. The analysis focused on five features: F0 rises, F0 peak alignment, downstepping, final lowering, and cases of stress clash. The results not only supported previous research on this variety that came from read speech tasks (e.g., F0 peaks consistently aligned with the stressed syllable), but also highlighted the importance of using multiple methodologies to gain a more comprehensive understanding of PAS prosody. Specifically, the varied sentence lengths and structures common in spontaneous speech provided new insights into downstepping, final lowering, and stress clash in PAS intonation. Overall, these results contribute to the growing literature on Spanish prosody in shared linguistic spaces and lend support for trends (such as F0 peak alignment) that have been reported in other language contact varieties.

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Peruvian Amazonian Spanish

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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

Llegaron en sus canoa: innovación gramatical en el español de la Amazonía peruana

The Intonation of Peruvian Amazonian Spanish Declaratives: An Exploration of Spontaneous Speech

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