Esther L Brown

Biographic Data

ID5043346
NAMEEsther L Brown
GIVEN NAMESEsther L
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN E L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

    Open AccessEllen Broselow, Esther L Brown et al.BOOKCambridge Handbook of Bilingual…2024

    Bilingualism and the study of speech sounds are two of the largest areas of inquiry in linguistics. This Handbook sits at the intersection of these fields, providing a comprehensive overview of the most recent, cutting-edge work on the sound systems of adult and child bilinguals. Bringing together contributions from an international team of world-leading experts, it covers all aspects of the speech perception, production and processing of bilingu…

  • Variant Choices of Future Time Reference in Galician: The Grammaticalization of [haber (de) + infinitive] as a Window to Diachronic Change

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLELanguages2024References: 26

    Compared to neighboring Romance languages, Galician currently maintains a more ubiquitous usage of the construction [haber (present) + (de) + infinitive] as a future marker in variation with the periphrastic construction with ir ‘go’ and the morphological future. We examine this under-studied construction to gain a better understanding of Galician grammar and also contribute new data with which to consider diachronic change regarding the grammati…

  • Variable subject pronominal expression in non-finite clauses: Implications for variant patterns and emergent contexts

    Open AccessJavier Rivas, Eric L Brown et al.ARTICLELingua2018Cited by: 1References: 34

  • The role of discourse context frequency in phonological variation: A usage-based approach to bilingual speech production

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015

    Missing from the body of literature on contact-induced phonological influence are studies that examine language variation as it occurs in speech production among members of a speech community. This study uses a corpus of naturally occurring Spanish/English code-switched discourse to determine whether cross-language phonological effects are evident in the data. Specifically, 2629 tokens of word-initial /d/ were analyzed in spontaneous interactions…

  • Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates: Evidence from corpus-based spontaneous conversation and experimentally elicited data

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2015

    The present study examines variable realizations of Spanish word-initial voiced and voiceless dental stops in Spanish-English cognate pairs. Employing a variationist approach to naturalistic data, we report significantly decreased likelihood of reduced articulations of word-initial /d/ in cognates in spontaneous bilingual Puerto Rican discourse, and no such probabilistic effect for cognates in monolingual Spanish of the same speech community. Usi…

  • Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives: A quantitative analysis of Puerto Rican Spanish

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLESpanish in Context2011

    We conduct a quantitative analysis of conversational speech from native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish to test whether optional non-inversion of subjects in wh -questions ( ¿qué tú piensas? ) is indicative of a movement in Spanish from flexible to rigid word order (Morales 1989; Toribio 2000). We find high rates of subject expression (51%) and a strong preference for SV word order (47%) over VS (4%) in all sentence types, in line with assertion…

  • The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas (review)

    Eric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEHispania2010

    Reviewed by: The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas Esther L. Brown Bills, G., and Neddy Vigil. The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2008. Pp. 383. ISBN 978-0-8263-4549-3. This work is destined to be the ultimate resource on topics pertaining to New Mexican Spanish for years to come. Bills and Vigil expertly illustrate dialect geography …

  • Phonological Evidence of Interlingual Exemplar Connections

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2009

    We conduct quantitative analyses of 5,569 tokens of Spanish word-final /s/ in the speech of Spanish/English bilinguals and monolinguals to test the Exemplar Model of Lexical Representation. We establish that reduction (aspiration, deletion) of word-final /s/ in the speech of New Mexico is significantly lower in Spanish words whose English translation equivalent has a word-final /s/ and significantly higher in words with no word-final sibilant in …

  • New Mexican Spanish: Insight into the Variable Reduction of "La ehe inihial" (/s)

    Eric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEHispania2005Cited by: 2

    For close to a century, a noted feature of the Spanish of New Mexico has been the variable aspiration and deletion of syllable-initial /s/ (Espinosa 1909), yet no empirical investigations have been undertaken to study this process within this variety of Spanish in the United States. In fact, syllable-initial /s/ world-wide is rarely quantified, with few exceptions (e.g., Garcia and Talion 1995). This relative lack of empirical analysis means that…

  • Spanish /s/: A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final)

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.CHAPTERA Romance perspective on language…2003