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Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 12] 2021
► pp. 103–138

Adult language and dialect learning as simultaneous environmental triggers for language change in Spanish

| West Chester University
| University of Wisconsin – Madison

Grammatical restructuring in contact situations is customarily analyzed under the lens of either language contact or dialect contact. In this study we argue that both processes may operate jointly in social settings where dialectal accommodation and adult L2 learning favor the same linguistic outcomes. From an evolutionary perspective, this overlap between both forms of contact may be conceptualized as a function of a common underlying process, with speakers selecting features of heterogeneous provenance, acquired at various life stages. We exemplify this joint effect by focusing on two changes in the history of Spanish: the rearrangement of the 3rd person object clitic system in medieval southern Iberian Castilian and the merging of the medieval sibilants in early colonial Spanish.

Keywords: evolutionary linguistics, contact-induced change, adult language and dialect learning, clitic pronouns, sibilant sounds
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Language contact vs. dialect contact
  • 3.Contact among systems vs. contact among speakers: Language acquisition and language change from an evolutionary-ecological perspective
  • 4.Early colonial Spanish sibilants
    • 4.1The internal ecology of ECS fricative sibilants
    • 4.2The external ecology of the early Spanish American colonies
    • 4.3Acquisition of sibilants in ECS from a cross-linguistic perspective
    • 4.4Towards a new account of ECS sibilants: The role of adult language learning
  • 5.Object Pronoun paradigms in Medieval Southern Iberian Castilian (MSIC)
    • 5.1The internal ecology of MSIC clitics
    • 5.2The external ecology of MSIC clitics
    • 5.3Acquisition of clitics in MSIC from a cross-linguistic perspective
    • 5.4Towards a new account of MSIC clitics: The role of adult language learning
  • 6.Conclusion: Individuals as agents of language change
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 13 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.12.c05san
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