Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Program

Spanish

Content Description

1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Lotfi Sayahi

Committee Members

Aaron Broadwell, Lee Bickmore, Maurice Westmoreland

Keywords

Copala Triqui, Language contact, Phonetic variation, Trique language, Languages in contact

Subject Categories

Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Abstract

This study focuses on the results of increased language contact on Spanish loanword adaptation in Copala Triqui at the segmental and prosodic levels. Data from field notes and publications from the 1960s and 1970s were compared to modern 21st century loanword adaptations in 80+ hours of radio broadcasts and recorded elicitations in personal fieldwork in Mexico, Central California and Albany, NY. The overarching goal is to identify a wide range of possible phonetic adaptations at the segmental and prosodic levels and track the possible effects of increased bilingualism on these adaptations. From there it attempts to hypothesize what phonetic variation may indicate more generalized contact induced change in Copala Triqui.

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