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The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad

Abstract

Research shows that students who study abroad (SA) gain in communicative and discourse skills more than their at-home (AH) counterparts (Freed, 1995). However, such advantages are not automatic. For example, evidence of SA phonological advantages over AH is clear at times (e.g. Díaz Campos, 2006) while not in others (e.g. Geeslin & Gudmestad, 2011). This study adds to the conversation about phonological acquisition during SA and posits that learner social networks (Milroy, 1987) are key in such acquisition. It examines the realizations of [θ] in four English native speakers who spent one year in Madrid. Two used [θ] consistently while the other two did not. The participants’ social networks can be used, in part, to explain the discrepancy.

Abstract

Research shows that students who study abroad (SA) gain in communicative and discourse skills more than their at-home (AH) counterparts (Freed, 1995). However, such advantages are not automatic. For example, evidence of SA phonological advantages over AH is clear at times (e.g. Díaz Campos, 2006) while not in others (e.g. Geeslin & Gudmestad, 2011). This study adds to the conversation about phonological acquisition during SA and posits that learner social networks (Milroy, 1987) are key in such acquisition. It examines the realizations of [θ] in four English native speakers who spent one year in Madrid. Two used [θ] consistently while the other two did not. The participants’ social networks can be used, in part, to explain the discrepancy.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction xi
  5. Part I. Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics
  6. Quantitative analysis in language variation and change 3
  7. Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics 33
  8. Part II. Bilingualism
  9. Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish 91
  10. On the tenacity of Andean Spanish 109
  11. Spanish and Valencian in contact 135
  12. Part III. Language Acquisition
  13. Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression 157
  14. The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad 177
  15. Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish 197
  16. Part IV. Phonological Variation
  17. On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish 219
  18. Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán 241
  19. Bilingualism and aspiration 261
  20. Part V. Morpho-Syntactic Variation
  21. Spanish and Portuguese parallels 285
  22. The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay 305
  23. A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals 323
  24. Part VI. Lexical Variation
  25. Social factors in semantic change 345
  26. Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts 363
  27. “Trabajar es en español, en ladino es lavorar” 381
  28. Index 401
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
This chapter is in the book Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.8.07pop

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction xi
  5. Part I. Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics
  6. Quantitative analysis in language variation and change 3
  7. Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics 33
  8. Part II. Bilingualism
  9. Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish 91
  10. On the tenacity of Andean Spanish 109
  11. Spanish and Valencian in contact 135
  12. Part III. Language Acquisition
  13. Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression 157
  14. The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad 177
  15. Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish 197
  16. Part IV. Phonological Variation
  17. On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish 219
  18. Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán 241
  19. Bilingualism and aspiration 261
  20. Part V. Morpho-Syntactic Variation
  21. Spanish and Portuguese parallels 285
  22. The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay 305
  23. A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals 323
  24. Part VI. Lexical Variation
  25. Social factors in semantic change 345
  26. Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts 363
  27. “Trabajar es en español, en ladino es lavorar” 381
  28. Index 401
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