Central American varieties of Spanish in Nebraska

What is it about?

We explore self-reported use of the pronoun vos by a group of speakers of Central American Spanish in the state of Nebraska. All speakers included in this study lived or had grown up in communities where they have had intense contact with speakers of Mexican American and Mexican Spanish.

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Why is it important?

Our analysis focuses on the pronoun vos because it is a feature absent from the dialects of Spanish spoken by the majority of Latinx Nebraskans, and because its use and intergenerational transmission are closely inosculated with social meaning.