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A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE SYNTAX OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD SPANISH SPEAKERS OF NEW MEXICO

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE SYNTAX OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD SPANISH SPEAKERS OF NEW MEXICO MARlA ESTELA BRISK In the research on the Spanish language of the United States Southwest the distinctive nature of the northern New Mexico dialect is invariably emphasized. This distinctiveness can be attributed primarily to the lack of influence from recent immigrants from Mexico. The migration of Spanish speakers into the Southwest began in the first half of the sixteenth century and has continued to the present, with a massive surge in the present century. Northern New Mexico received the bulk of Spanish and Mexican people in the early immigration, while the rest of the Southwest has largely absorbed the later influx. In the decade of 1950-60 tremendous growth of the Spanish speaking population marked each of the southwestern border states except New Mexico. While California showed an 88 % increase in Spanish speakers, New Mexico grew by only 8 % (Christian and Christian, 1966: 290). The 1970 Census figures in Table I show the current influence of Mexican immigration in the four border states. Unlike the other states, New Mexico is seen to have a very small proportion of first or second generation Mexican immigrants. Moreover, the majority of those immigrants remain in the southern half of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE SYNTAX OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD SPANISH SPEAKERS OF NEW MEXICO

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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10.1515/ling.1974.12.128.69
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MARlA ESTELA BRISK In the research on the Spanish language of the United States Southwest the distinctive nature of the northern New Mexico dialect is invariably emphasized. This distinctiveness can be attributed primarily to the lack of influence from recent immigrants from Mexico. The migration of Spanish speakers into the Southwest began in the first half of the sixteenth century and has continued to the present, with a massive surge in the present century. Northern New Mexico received the bulk of Spanish and Mexican people in the early immigration, while the rest of the Southwest has largely absorbed the later influx. In the decade of 1950-60 tremendous growth of the Spanish speaking population marked each of the southwestern border states except New Mexico. While California showed an 88 % increase in Spanish speakers, New Mexico grew by only 8 % (Christian and Christian, 1966: 290). The 1970 Census figures in Table I show the current influence of Mexican immigration in the four border states. Unlike the other states, New Mexico is seen to have a very small proportion of first or second generation Mexican immigrants. Moreover, the majority of those immigrants remain in the southern half of the

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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