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New considerations for variable clitic placement in Spanish: Findings from Atlanta, Georgia

Revista española de lingüística aplicada, 2022-10, Vol.35 (2), p.650-674 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright John Benjamins Publishing Company 2022 ;ISSN: 0213-2028 ;EISSN: 2254-6774 ;DOI: 10.1075/resla.20026.lim

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  • Title:
    New considerations for variable clitic placement in Spanish: Findings from Atlanta, Georgia
  • Author: Limerick, Philip P.
  • Subjects: Bilingualism ; Clitics ; Conditioning ; Dialects ; English proficiency ; Gender ; Language change ; Language contact ; Language usage ; Language varieties ; Linguistics ; Reflexivity ; Social factors ; Sociolinguistics ; Spanish language ; Statistical analysis
  • Is Part Of: Revista española de lingüística aplicada, 2022-10, Vol.35 (2), p.650-674
  • Description: Abstract The current study examines variable clitic placement (CP) in Spanish in a Mexican community in the metropolitan Atlanta area. By employing sociolinguistic interview data from 20 first-generation Mexican speakers, clitic frequencies and constraints are analyzed. Tokens of proclisis and enclisis were coded for linguistic and social factors that potentially influence clitic usage (e.g., topic persistence, specific clitic used, English proficiency, age, gender), and a logistic regression analysis was carried out using Rbrul ( Daniel Johnson, 2009 ). Results indicate a proclisis rate of 64%, which is comparable to other varieties of Mexican Spanish. The regression analysis revealed that CP is sensitive to the particular construction used, the specific clitic, the presence of a pause, and the speaker’s gender. Additionally, English proficiency showed no effect on CP. This analysis supports previous research that CP is impermeable to contact-induced change and also reveals new conditioning factors (specific clitic, presence of a pause) that have not been examined in previous literature.
  • Publisher: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Language: English;Spanish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0213-2028
    EISSN: 2254-6774
    DOI: 10.1075/resla.20026.lim
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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