2014 Conference
May 8–9, 2014
Framingham, MA
MATSOL 2014 Conference: Online Program
Refresh • Reflect • Renew
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Language and Dialect Contact in the Spanish of Boston
Session Abstract
Spanish speaking Bostonians routinely interact not only with speakers of English but also with speakers of wide-ranging varieties of Spanish. The linguistic effects of such language and dialect contact are not yet understood. This talk aims to identify, assess, and understand intergenerational outcomes of linguistic contact through the lens of sociolinguistic theory and present a picture of an emerging Boston Spanish.
Session Length
Research-Oriented Presentation (45 minutes)
Audience
All Audiences
Topic Strand
Knowing Our Students (culture, psychology, educational background, etc)
Session Type
Invited Speaker
Lead Presenter
Daniel Erker, Boston University
Biographical Statement
Danny Erker earned his PhD at New York University and is currently an assistant professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Boston University. Danny's research interests include language contact, variation and change, sociophonetics, and also language evolution. He is currently collecting a corpus of spoken Spanish in the greater Boston Area to assess potential intergenerational shifts in patterns of linguistic variation