Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Montes-Alcalá |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Montes-Alcalá |
| SIGNATURE | MONTES-ALCALÁ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0336-2990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bilingual Texting in the Age of Emoji: Spanish-English Code-Switching in SMS
Technology and computer-mediated communication (CMC) have quickly transformed the means of interaction among monolingual and bilingual individuals alike, especially in the younger generations. While e-mail once replaced traditional "snail mail", today's youth networks mainly via social media and short message services (SMS). Digital communication has thus become a fertile ground for sociolinguistic research. The present study aims to contribute t…
ISwitch: Spanish-English Mixing in Computer-Mediated Communication
Technology, and the Internet in particular, have rapidly transformed the means of communication in the 21 st century, opening the door to a novel and fertile ground of research. What takes place when bi- or multilingual individuals sit at the keyboard has been the focus of several studies exploring computer-mediated communication ( cmc ). However, there appears to be a lack of research dealing specifically with Spanish-English language mixing onl…
El uso contextual del pronombre sujeto como factor predictivo de la influencia del inglés en el español de Nueva York [English influence on Spanish in New York: [Evidence from subject pronouns in cont…
Las keys versus el key: Feminine gender assignment in mixed-language texts
Previous research on language mixing has revealed similarities in written and oral production with respect to syntactic and pragmatic patterns (e.g. Callahan 2004). In this study we find, however, that the two modes of expression diverge in loanword gender assignment. English-origin NPs inserted into written Spanish discourse (e.g. un baggie ) were analyzed and compared to English-origin NPs in oral Spanish discourse. Results showed that loanword…
Mejor o peor español? Actitudes lingüísticas de universitarios hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos
The present study aims to explore the linguistic attitudes towards the different regional varieties of Spanish in a group of college-educated native speakers of Spanish. A survey was conducted among participants from diverse Spanishspeaking countries who lived in the United States. The main goals of the study were, in the first place, to determine whether these individuals were able to spontaneously attribute more (or less) prestige to a specific…
ISwitch: Spanish-English Mixing in Computer-Mediated Communication
Technology, and the Internet in particular, have rapidly transformed the means of communication in the 21 st century, opening the door to a novel and fertile ground of research. What takes place when bi- or multilingual individuals sit at the keyboard has been the focus of several studies exploring computer-mediated communication ( cmc ). However, there appears to be a lack of research dealing specifically with Spanish-English language mixing onl…
El uso contextual del pronombre sujeto como factor predictivo de la influencia del inglés en el español de Nueva York [English influence on Spanish in New York: [Evidence from subject pronouns in cont…
Bilingual Texting in the Age of Emoji: Spanish-English Code-Switching in SMS
Technology and computer-mediated communication (CMC) have quickly transformed the means of interaction among monolingual and bilingual individuals alike, especially in the younger generations. While e-mail once replaced traditional "snail mail", today's youth networks mainly via social media and short message services (SMS). Digital communication has thus become a fertile ground for sociolinguistic research. The present study aims to contribute t…
Las keys versus el key: Feminine gender assignment in mixed-language texts
Previous research on language mixing has revealed similarities in written and oral production with respect to syntactic and pragmatic patterns (e.g. Callahan 2004). In this study we find, however, that the two modes of expression diverge in loanword gender assignment. English-origin NPs inserted into written Spanish discourse (e.g. un baggie ) were analyzed and compared to English-origin NPs in oral Spanish discourse. Results showed that loanword…
Mejor o peor español? Actitudes lingüísticas de universitarios hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos
The present study aims to explore the linguistic attitudes towards the different regional varieties of Spanish in a group of college-educated native speakers of Spanish. A survey was conducted among participants from diverse Spanishspeaking countries who lived in the United States. The main goals of the study were, in the first place, to determine whether these individuals were able to spontaneously attribute more (or less) prestige to a specific…
El uso contextual del pronombre sujeto como factor predictivo de la influencia del inglés en el español de Nueva York [English influence on Spanish in New York: [Evidence from subject pronouns in cont…
ISwitch: Spanish-English Mixing in Computer-Mediated Communication
Technology, and the Internet in particular, have rapidly transformed the means of communication in the 21 st century, opening the door to a novel and fertile ground of research. What takes place when bi- or multilingual individuals sit at the keyboard has been the focus of several studies exploring computer-mediated communication ( cmc ). However, there appears to be a lack of research dealing specifically with Spanish-English language mixing onl…
Bilingual Texting in the Age of Emoji: Spanish-English Code-Switching in SMS
Technology and computer-mediated communication (CMC) have quickly transformed the means of interaction among monolingual and bilingual individuals alike, especially in the younger generations. While e-mail once replaced traditional "snail mail", today's youth networks mainly via social media and short message services (SMS). Digital communication has thus become a fertile ground for sociolinguistic research. The present study aims to contribute t…
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Code (set theory (2 works) · Code-mixing (2 works) · Code-switching (2 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works)