This paper analyzes Spanish maintenance/shift in rural southern California after its
annexation to the United States. Based on a dataset of personal letters, it examines the …

The historical dimensions of California Spanish have until now been studied from a
structural perspective (Blanco 1971, Perissinotto 1992, 1998, Acevedo 2000, Moyna and …

Over 800 Latino high school and college students in Chicago, Illinois, reported via a written
questionnaire that they used Spanish 75% or more of the time with their parents and other …

This study analyzes the patterns of incorporation of English elements in New Mexican
Spanish in the decades following the annexation of New Mexico by the United States as …

This article presents preliminary results from two long-term, mixed design qualitative and
quantitative studies of Spanish language usage in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South …

This is a study of Spanish in the San Diego area during the 19th century, based on seventy-
two unpublished documents. It aims to provide a panoramic and comprehensive description …

The use of minority languages generally wanes across generations, often being gradually
abandoned by each new group in the face of the formal and informal social influence of the …

Contrary to popular belief, the first European language spoken on American soil was not
English, but Spanish. Explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his shipmates landed on …

Este número especial de Spanish in Context pone de manifiesto la dinámica del estudio del
mantenimiento inter-generacional del español en el sudoeste de los Estados Unidos. Las …

This study explores convergence in subject position in US Southwest Spanish at the outset
of its extensive contact with English. The data analyzed come from two Spanish newspapers …