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Functional Compensation for /s/ Deletion in Puerto Rican Spanish

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ID2867309
AuthorsJudith G Hochberg, Judy Hochberg (0000-0003-3721-7556, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume62
Issue3
Pages609-621
Publication date1986-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.1986.0041
OpenAlexW1976040090
LanguageEN
Citations received79
References cited5

The role of functional processes in language is examined in the context of an empirical study of /s/ deletion in Puerto Rican Spanish. Deletion of /s/ from 2sg. verb forms is shown to result in exceptionally high use of subject pronouns, especially with those verb forms rendered ambiguous by /s/ deletion. These findings are shown to fit in with a general tendency in Puerto Rican Spanish to use pronouns functionally as well as stylistically

Compensation (psychology) · Ethnology · Geography · Puerto rican · Sociology · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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Citation span1989 - 2026 (38)
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