Sociolinguistic continuities in language contact situations:

Carvalho, Ana Maria

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“…In addition, these results support Carvalho's argument (Carvalho 2003(Carvalho , 2004(Carvalho , 2014(Carvalho , 2016 for dialect leveling in the region due to the recent urbanization of Uruguayan Portuguese. On one hand, the incorporation of a gente is less frequent in the speech of Aceguá, Uruguay, compared to its counterpart in Aceguá, Brazil, in line with previous claims that Uruguayan Portuguese shows conservative traits when compared to Brazilian Portuguese.…”

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When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier

Pacheco,

Carvalho,

Scherre

2024

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This study shows that the incorporation of the first-person plural pronoun a gente has not only reached the southernmost tip of the Brazilian territory, but has crossed the border and entered Uruguayan Portuguese, or varieties of Portuguese spoken in northern Uruguay by Portuguese–Spanish bilinguals. This finding is based on the quantification of the a gente/nós variable in sociolinguistic interviews carried out in two border communities: Aceguá, Brazil, and Aceguá, Uruguay. The analysis of interviews recorded on each side of the border yielded a total of 1000 tokens that were submitted to a multivariate analysis. Following the premises of comparative sociolinguistics, we compared the distribution of the variable on both sides of the border and found that although Uruguayans used a gente less often than Brazilians, this innovation, preferred by young speakers, is incorporated in both dialects, following similar linguistic paths. These results show that Uruguayan Portuguese has incorporated the pronominal a gente in its grammar in a clear sign of convergence towards Brazilian Portuguese and divergence from Spanish, despite the coexistence with Spanish that categorically uses nosotros as the first-person plural pronoun and reserves the cognate la gente for its purely lexical meaning ‘the people’.

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When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier

Pacheco,

Carvalho,

Scherre

2024

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The role of linguistic ideologies in language contact situations

Rodríguez‐Ordóñez¹

2019

Language and Linguist. Compass

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The field of contact linguistics has long argued for the paramount importance of social factors in understanding the outcomes of linguistic contact. In contrast, linguistic ideologies have not played a central role in theories of language contact, though this has begun to change in recent decades. This article provides an account of early theorizations of linguistic ideologies and their increasingly important applications to the study of contact phenomena. A brief survey of more recent theoretical advancements with respect to ideologies and contact phenomena follows, paying special attention to studies in linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. While recognizing the challenges inherent in the study of linguistic ideologies, this article argues that they should be at the foreground of contact linguistics. To this end, methodological tools for such study are presented, along with theoretical considerations and future directions.

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Conflicting standards and variability: Spirantization in two varieties of Uruguayan Spanish

Gilbert

2023

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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Most sociolinguistic work on variation focuses on how rates of occurrence or mean measurements differ between speech communities and speakers. However, speakers and communities also differ in variability – that is, in dispersion around the mean. The current study investigates the effects of speech style and multilingualism on variation and variability, by measuring the degree of intervocalic /bdɡ/ spirantization in spontaneous and careful speech. Data come from two varieties of Uruguayan Spanish, one monolingual (Montevideo) and one in contact with Brazilian Portuguese (Rivera). The results from a variation analysis confirm expected linguistic and social effects on gradient spirantization. An analysis of variability shows that, at the group level, careful speech is more variable than spontaneous speech, and the data from Rivera is more variable than that from Montevideo. Variability at the individual level differs slightly, suggesting that the group-level variability arises from between-speaker variability and within-speaker variability in different contexts. I propose that multilingualism in Rivera may heighten variability because contact with Portuguese provides a wider range of available pronunciations, and that careful speech may increase variability because the available pronunciations are subject to conflicting standards that are most active in this style.

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Sociolinguistic continuities in language contact situations:

Cited by 3 publications

References 36 publications

When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier

When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier

The role of linguistic ideologies in language contact situations

Conflicting standards and variability: Spirantization in two varieties of Uruguayan Spanish

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