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Assibilation of /-r/ and migration among Mexicans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2004

Maríadelaluz Matus-Mendoza
Maríadelaluz Matus-Mendoza
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Drexel University
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Abstract

This article examines the assibilation of the vibrant /-r/ in word final position in Mexican Spanish in an urban and a rural community in Moroleón (Guanajuato, Mexico) and Kennett Square (Pennsylvania, United States). The data was collected according to traditional sociolinguistic methodology during 1995 and 1996. The analysis of the data uses linguistic factors combined with socioeconomic factors that include movement seen as social mobility and/or migratory tendencies in the population. Through the intertwining of these factors interesting tendencies can be observed: female preference for the innovative and prestigious variant as a way to acquire power in a society where women do not have a voice to claim or seek social mobility and power; the influence of the linguistic market in the community, and the effects of accommodation.My thanks go to the anonymous reader who reviewed this paper. I am responsible for any shortcomings found here.

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Language Variation and Change , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 17 - 30
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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