What is it about?
This paper reports on a study that explores motivations, attitudes and household language practices surrounding Spanish maintenance and loss in a group of Mexican American households on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Why is it important?
This work is relevant because it allows us to better understand the pressures and external influences encountered by parents who wish to transmit a non-majority language to their children.
Perspectives
This study is a micro-level examination of the processes involved in situations of intense and prolonged language contact. It is an attempt to understand some of the effects this contact in the most intimate space of the household.
Isabel Velázquez
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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This page is a summary of: Intergenerational Spanish transmission in El Paso, Texas, Spanish in Context, April 2009, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/sic.6.1.05vel.
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