Article published in:
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
Edited by Sandro Sessarego and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 8] 2016
► pp. 89–108

Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish

An analytical approach to its indicators, markers, and stereotypes

| University of California, Los Angeles
| University of California, Los Angeles
Our goal in this chapter is to test the perception of a typology of nonstandard Spanish features and Salvadoran lexical items among speakers of Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish (LAVS), a variant of Mexican Spanish used by the predominant Spanish-speaking speech community in Los Angeles. We demonstrate how Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in the United States reclassify acceptability ratings in a country that does not impose Standard Spanish, unless the speaker willingly enrolls in courses of L2 Spanish.
Keywords: (non)standard Spanish, indicators, LAVS, markers, Mexican Spanish, speech community, stereotypes
Published online: 25 May 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.8.03par
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