Chapter 1
The New Spanishes in the context of contact linguistics
Toward a unified approach
Weinreich
(1953) argued that a comprehensive model of language
contact must integrate linguistic, sociolinguistic and
psycholinguistic approaches. This paper discusses how such a model
can be applied to the contact languages that arose in the Spanish
colonies as a result of contact between Spanish and various other
languages. These contact languages include close approximations to
Peninsular Spanish, Afro-Hispanic varieties, “indigenized” varieties
and of course creoles. I argue that all these contact varieties
should be amenable to description and analysis within the same
framework. To this end, I discuss the ways in which Weinreich’s
model of an integrated approach can be linked to a naturalistic
second language acquisition (NSLA) account of the formation of the
contact varieties of Spanish.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The natural SLA framework
- 3.Social factors in the emergence of naturalistic second language
varieties
- 3.1Social factors in the emergence of Hispanic colonial
dialects
- 4.Substrate inputs to the formation of Spanish-related
creoles
- 5.SLA processes at work in the formation of creoles
- 6.The psycholinguistic mechanisms of change in contact language
formation
- 6.1Processing constraints on the acquisition of TL
structures
- 6.2L1 influence and processing in creole formation and other
cases of naturalistic SLA
- 7.Mechanisms of imposition in cases of naturalistic SLA
- 8.The need for future research on Spanish-related contact
languages
- 9.Conclusion
-
Notes
-
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