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Title:
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Quechua and Spanish Language Contact: Influence on the Quechua phonological system
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Author:
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Michael Pasquale
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Michigan State University
, Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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2001
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Sociolinguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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Spanish
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Language Family(ies):
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Quechuan
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Director(s):
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Dennis R. Preston
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Abstract:
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This dissertation investigates the extent to which there is cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the phonetic and phonological levels on a first language from a second language. Specifically, this dissertation looks at variation in Quechua (L1) as a result of contact with Spanish (L2). It was hypothesized that bilingual speakers with different degrees of proficiency would correspond to differences in what is transferred from the L2 to the L1.
The four following areas were measured in Quechua-Spanish bilingual speakers of Urubamba, Peru: the position of vowels [I] and [U], the application of the allophonic rule that backs [I] and [U] when in the vicinity of /q/, the voice onset time of plain and aspirated voiceless stops, and whether bilingual speakers still have a phonemic uvular stop and glottalize voiceless stops /p, t, k, q/.
My results show that at each potential area of influence, there is a difference between the Quechua of bilingual speakers and the Quechua of monolingual speakers. There are also differences between those bilingual speakers who are Quechua-dominant and those who are Spanish-dominant.
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