Language Ideologies and Hegemonic Factors Imposed upon Judeo-Spanish Speaking Communities

Metathesis in Judeo-Spanish Consonant Clusters

Judeo-Spanish (JS) denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Some descriptions of JS emphasize its conservative, archaic nature, highlighting its similarities to Old Spanish (OS), while other research points up the novel characteristics that d...

Myth, language, and complex ideologies

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...

Constraints on the Metathesis of Sonorant Consonants in Judeo-Spanish

Judeo-Spanish denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. This paper examines three types of consonant metathesis in Judeo-Spanish: daldo < dadlo ‘give it’, terné ‘I will have’ < tener ‘to have’, and tadre < tarde ‘late, afternoon’. The first tw...

Prosodically-conditioned Sibilant Voicing in Balkan Judeo-Spanish

Phonological skills in predominantly English-speaking, predominantly Spanish-speaking, and Spanish-English bilingual children.

PURPOSE There is a paucity of information detailing the phonological skills of Spanish-English bilingual children and comparing that information to information concerning the phonological skills of predominantly English-speaking (PE) and predominantly Spanish-speaking (PS) children. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between amount of output (i.e., percentage of time each...