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| Other authors / contributors: | Amaral, Patrícia Matos, 1975-
Carvalho, Ana Maria.
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| ISBN: | 9789027270177
9027270171
9027258007
9789027258007
9789027258007
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| Notes: | 2. Segmental inventories of Spanish and Portuguese (with historical commentary).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Western hemisphere varieties of Spanish and Portuguese show substantial similarity in the patterning of sociolinguistic variation and change. Caribbean and coastal dialects of Latin American Spanish share several variables with Brazilian Portuguese (e.g., deletion of coda -s, -r). These variables also show similar social distribution in Hispanic and Lusophone communities: formal styles and high status speakers are consonantally conservative, while higher deletion is associated with working class speakers and informal styles. The regions that show these sociolinguistic parallels also share comm.
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| Other form: | Print version: Amaral, Patrícia. Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces : Diachrony, synchrony, and contact. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2014 9789027258007
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