In:
Language Dynamics and Change, Brill, Vol. 5, No. 2 ( 2015), p. 169-201
Abstract:
We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L 2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L 1 even when literacy and education levels are accounted for. A significant difference in frame use between the Mesoamerican and non-Mesoamerican indigenous languages further supports the contact diffusion analysis.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2210-5824
,
2210-5832
DOI:
10.1163/22105832-00502002
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
2015
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