Rebecca E. Ronquest
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebecca E. Ronquest plays a role.
2024 Chapter 7. Ven, Vení, Venga: Forms of address among Argentines and Central Americans in North Carolina Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 172–196 | Chapter
The present investigation contributes to our understanding of the evolving linguistic communities in the Southeastern U.S. by examining the factors that drive speakers’ choice of second person singular pronouns (e.g., tú, vos, usted). Results indicate that context and origin are the most… read more
2023 Perceptions of inclusive language in the Spanish of the Southeast: Data from a large classroom project Spanish in Context 20:1, pp. 96–129 | Article
This study examines the perceptions of inclusive language among first- and second-generation Spanish speakers residing in North Carolina, USA, based on survey data collected from 337 speakers by undergraduates. The survey examines familiarity with innovative inclusive language forms (including… read more
2020 Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 303–326 | Chapter
The present investigation aims to facilitate our understanding of Spanish in the Southeastern United States – a region that despite its rapid growth over the last two decades, has received little attention in the literature. Analyses of four linguistic variables indicated that while second… read more
2009 Discriminating Pitch Accent Alignment in Spanish Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang (eds.), pp. 243–260 | Article
While much acoustic-phonetic evidence has accumulated which proves the existence of two phonetically distinct peak alignments (L+H* and L*+H) in Spanish declaratives, whether or not the two alignments are phonologically distinct remains a topic of debate. The goal of the present paper is to utilize… read more