English Loans in Colorado Spanish

HE purpose of this paper is to present a representative discussion of the English influence, in the form of direct and indirect loans, on the spoken Spanish of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. The second author, a bilingual native of the region and student assistant to the first author, is responsible for nearly all the words and expressions listed; much of the material came to her attention in the course of several years of teaching in the region. The introduction, the phonetic transcriptions, the general linguistic commentary, and the form of the paper are the work of the first author

American English · Linguistics · Work (physics · Engineering · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy

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