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Despite the important role assigned to analogical reasoning (AR) in cognition and language, the relationship between this ability and language skills in the emergent literacy period has not been sufficiently studied, especially in Spanish speakers. To explore this link, we examined two modalities of AR (verbal and non-verbal) as predictors of linguistic skills in Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical language development. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted and non-probability sampling was used. Participants were assessed on listening comprehension, lexical skills, phonological awareness and verbal and non-verbal AR. The sample consisted of 48 monolingual Spanish-speaking children from 4.1 to 6.0 years old. Hierarchical regression analysis identified a general model of age and verbal AR as significant predictors of overall emergent literacy performance and also pointed out the different contributions of the verbal and non-verbal AR to models of listening comprehension, lexical skills and phonological awareness. These findings contribute to the discussion on the dynamics of this relationship in the emergent literacy period and underscore the need to analyse specific analogical modalities in models of language development.

We identify language and discourse skills in 54-month-old Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers and their English-speaking monolingual peers, using multiple measures. Forty-one Spanish-English bilingual and 25 English monolingual children, all US born, viewed an eight-minute wordless video. The bilingual children recounted the story once in English and once in Spanish, in counterbalanced order. The story retellings were transcribed and coded for discourse skills (narrative length, narrative components and uses of evaluative language) and language skills (number of words, number of different words, MLUw). No difference was found in the two groups´ overall language or discourse skills, assessed in the narrative production, with the exception of certain uses of evaluative language. Within the bilingual group, all measures, except MLUw, were highly correlated across the two languages. Our multidimensional analysis of narrative structure and use of evaluative language sheds light on certain differences between the ways in which English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals organize their narrative discourse. We discuss the advantages of using this multidimensional approach in assessing bilinguals´ language and discourse abilities in narrative production. [Translation from English by Mercè Rius.]

Promotion policies for minoritized languages are usually criticized on the grounds of a pro-mono-lingual presumption; in Spanish public debate, this presumption usually relies on considering that the status of Spanish language as the «common language» of Spanish citizens is a «brute fact» that should not be modified through public policies. This article argues: (1) that such «fact» is actually the result of a set of public policies, past and present; (2) that such public policies put speakers of minoritized languages in a position of unjust subalternity; and (3) that, therefore, the effects of those public policies can and should be corrected through other policies based upon a pro-multilingual presumption, thus ensuring a fair distribution of the costs and benefits of living together among speakers of the dominant language and those of minoritized languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents the results of an investigation carried out in 2018 which objective was to analyze the differences in written productions between monolingual and bilingual children in different contexts. The universe of study includes 57 fourth graders from four schools in the northeast region of Uruguay. The techniques used included, on the one hand, standardized questionnaires for mothers and children to find out the linguistic varieties having been used by both, the sex of the child, the age of the mother and the household socioeconomic status. On the other hand, children's written productions were analyzed through the dimensions considered by UMRE (Educational Outcomes Measurement Unit) in 1998. The texts reflected linguistic varieties different from Spanish in the text. Besides, significant differences were found both between written productions made by both users and non-users of portuñol as well as regarding between border and non-border schools. Likewise, the dissimilarities as for between urban and rural schools were not substantial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the first results obtained with REVOC: 1, an automated auditory word recognition task used to assess receptive vocabulary in Spanish-speaking preschoolers. The task was programmed in Unity for 8' tablets in a self-application mode and included accuracy and response time as parameters. Non-probabilistic sampling was used. The sample consisted of 242 monolingual Chilean children between 4 and 6 years old. The list of vocabulary stimuli was extracted from TEVI-R, a paper-based test that assesses receptive (hearing) vocabulary. To estimate the automation's functionality and the parameters' values, the performance by age group at both global and item levels was evaluated. The results demonstrated a high level of performance in the selected items, with significant differences by age group in both accuracy and response time. The accuracy correlated negatively with total and correct latencies, with significant differences between age groups. The contrast by items allowed us to appreciate the time-precision relationship modulated by age, and the effect of word difficulty on latency. REVOC:1 adequately assessed receptive vocabulary and can advance to new stages of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ecuadorian Andean Spanish (EAS) has been in intense and sustained contact with Kichwa, a variety of Quechua spoken in Ecuador. Different studies have shown the influence of Kichwa in this variety of Andean Spanish at different levels, such as lexical, phonetic/phonological, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic (Bustamante 1991; Haboud 1998, 2018; Palacios 2005, 2007; Haboud y de la Vega 2008; Pfänder y Palacios 2013; Muysken 2019). Although morphological influence of Kichwa over EAS is minimal, there is evidence of the use of the Kichwa morpheme -ka in both Kichwa-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals (Lipski 2014; Muysken 2019). Nevertheless, no previous study analyzes the presence of this particle in the speech of EAS monolinguals. Thus, the present study offers a preliminary analysis about the distribution and discourse role of -ka in the speech of EAS monolinguals from the city of Ambato (EAS Ambateño). The data was obtained through sociolinguistic interviews and fieldwork notes collected between 2018 and 2019. The results show that EAS monolinguals from Ambato use -ka with different constituents (e.g., pronouns, nouns, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions). Regarding its role in the discourse, it is argued that -ka is a particle that evokes contrast (contrastive focus). Since we are in a language contact scenario, it is of the utmost importance to consider social, historical, and demographic factors of the city of Ambato along with the background of the speakers in order to understand the dynamics of the languages (Kichwa and Spanish) and try to find a possible answer to how this particle was incorporated in the speech of EAS monolinguals from Ambato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

France is generally considered a monolingual or linguistically unitary country, but this reality is highly nuanced. Alongside French, the only official language, there are many other «languages of France» which are constitutionally considered as «patrimony of the Republic», and whose legal status is far from clear, focusing on the ideas of protection and promotion. This has given rise to various problems, such as that of linguistic immersion in education, which have recently been subject to regulation and analysis by the Conseil Constitutionnel, with a result that may be confusing and has been very controversial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This critical case study aims to analyze the linguistic ideologies of researchers working at a Mexican research center in social sciences and humanities, and whether these ideologies influence their academic work. To triangulate the collected data of this qualitative research, we used questionnaires, interviews and official documents to increase the reliability of the results. Findings show that, in terms of academic production, English monolingualism has been established at a global level and Spanish monolingualism at a local level, which clearly impacts on the beliefs and attitudes of the participants. Participants perceive English as a bridge, a lingua franca, an international language and as the only language which would allow their research to achieve global impact. We therefore want to make a call on the scientific community to adopt a more multilingual approach in the field of academic production in higher education, which could possibly help maintain Mexico's linguistic diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This is a variationist study on subject position in Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Quechua bilinguals in Huancayo, Peru. Such a variable is ideal to examine the universal predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (IH), since it involves two interfaces constraining subject position choice in Spanish: the syntactic-semantic one (internal) and the syntactic-pragmatic one (external). The IH predicts that the acquisition of features at internal interfaces should bear no difficulty for bilinguals, in contrast with the acquisition of features at external interfaces. Multiple regression analyses reveal that the differences found go along the lines of the universal predictions of the IH: the unaccusativity of the subjects' verbs (internal interface) is a strong predictor of the VS order for the bilinguals, whereas focus (external interface) does not constrain said variant. Nonetheless, some Quechua properties appear as an alternative explanation, rather peculiar to the contact situation studied, to the contrast found between the two speaker groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a new theoretical framework for analyzing linguistic power relations and it examines the linguistic effects of what Anibal Quijano has called coloniality of power. The coloniality of language refers to a process of racialization of colonized people as communicating agents (ie, as potential interlocutors) that begins with the conquest of America and nowadays. The research focuses on the dehumanization of the colonized and enslaved populations, and the concomitant contempt of their languages and social ways of making sense, interpreted as expressions of his inferior 'nature'. The results are an original contribution to the debate on the historical relationship between colonialism, race, ethnicity, and language in America. The argument suggests that there is a connection between the reduction of the colonized and racialized populations to a status of non-humans, as well as a monolingual linguistic ideology that hides colonial oppression dialogically and discursively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the ideas about monolingualism and language mixture that appear in Bernardo de Aldrete's work Del origen (1606) and places them in the political, social, and cultural context of the Catalan-speaking lands at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. This contextualization proves, first of all, that an important part of the language ideology in Del origen consists of the defence of linguistic imperialism versus linguistic nationalism. This idea is based on the negativity of language mixture and the support of unbalanced bilingualism, which implies the defence of the exclusive use of the Spanish language in formal contexts in the Catalan-speaking lands. Second, the comparison of Del origen with texts written in both Catalan and Spanish in the Catalan-speaking lands, shows that there are contradictory ideas in Del origen, as far as the value of linguistic mixture is concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research exposes the interaction between two varieties of Spanish spoken in the monolingual rural context. We analyse the interaction of standard and rural Spanish in use domains related with communicative events and social spaces. We present the perception that speakers have on the rural and standard register. The data were obtain through the application of sociolinguistic questionnaire answer by twenty speakers that live in La Generala, community located on the Nahuelbuta mountain range near to Santa Juana, Biobío region. The results allow as to describe the interactive processes between the varieties. We show the places where the speakers use this registers and some data about de linguistic attitude toward local Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is a bibliographic review of the current situation of educational and linguistic policies related to bilingual education in the border states between the U.S. and Mexico. It describes the nonexistent but implicit federal language policies in the United States of America as well as its ad hoc policies on bilingual education, especially regarding the current situation of Spanish and its legislation in the border states with Mexico. The growing anti-immigrant feeling that exists in these states is reflected in the policies restricting the use of Spanish and other languages different from English. This situation establishes a deep contradiction taking into account the historical origin of this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because of coffee prices crisis in Mexico, mainly for indigenous producers, a labor expulsion process between their family members, like the case of indigenous coffee growers in Huehuetla municipality, Puebla. This population movement could be categorized as inner migration, but with a permanent character due to low prices and the lack of well remunerated jobs in coffee farms. Inner migration responds to poverty and marginalization conditions in which they are living; and monolingualism influences over this kind of migration too. So, being coffee producer is synonym of being indigenous, marginal and poor. Based on this condition, in context of low prices for the main commodity, migrate overseas is rather impossible; the only opportunity in order to improve their lives is realizing inner migration, mainly to cities like Mexico and Puebla, where the family members of coffee growers are employed without any social benefit. If the conditions in coffee farms remain in the future this migratory flow will hold steady; putting at risk peasant's ways of living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we attempts to argue that the Steiner's concept of extraterritoriality, Lacan's extimacy and Derrida's notion of "monolingualism of the other", put in scene a complex cartography where the fixed ontological limits that are played between the inside and the outside boundary are broken. We are interested in pointing out some metaphysical and -even more fundamental- political implications: the not-obvious division between the own and the other people's. The sliding that these notions produce, allows to think about the language and tongue not as tight compartments but as open spaces thus exposed to contamination, spread, dispersion and confusion. We claim that this conceptualization, which is evident in exile situations, seems to be a way of understanding the relationship with the language. After all, maybe we deal with an exile relationship from language (Blanchot, 1955), but to be in exile, something must remain home. It is this paradoxical relationship we propose thinking in some texts of the Latin American neo-baroque. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We show partial results of the project Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America, that reveal the beliefs about linguistic correctness and its relation with comprehensibility expressed by Spanish-speaking subjects from Santiago de Chile. In order to collect the data we have applied a direct survey to 400 subjects from this city, grouped according to sex, age and socio-economic status. Our findings reveal that correct Spanish, according to these subjects, matches mainly with Castilian Spanish and is strongly related to comprehensibility and effectiveness in communication. In general terms, beliefs about linguistic correctness are coherent with the monoglossic linguistic culture current in the Spanish-speaking world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we analyse the treatment of regular lexical polysemy and facets from a metalexicographic perspective in a sample of eight monolingual, general-purpose and semasiological dictionaries of Spanish. We analyse 82 nouns, belonging to general Spanish, which present the semantic phenomena in question, as they appear in 656 lexicographical articles. Our main goal is to set foundations for the elaboration of a lexicographical treatment that synthesizes the good practices of the Hispanic lexicographical tradition and, at the same time, overcomes its problems. Our investigation reveals that these dictionaries show, to a larger or smaller extent, considerable defects in the treatment of lexical units showing regular lexical polysemy or facets. We propose that these defects can be rectified through five specific principles for the treatment of these kinds of lexical units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we present a quantitative analysis of the morphosyntactic variation of the analytic (present progressive) and synthetic (simple present) forms of present progressive aspect in monolingual and bilingual Spanish. By way of a contextualized questionnaire previously coded for the linguistic factors of verbal lexical aspect and semantics of the adverb, we identify the contexts of variation of the forms under investigation. In addition, the analysis includes the extralinguistic factors of gender and bilingualism. The results indicate that lexical aspect of the verb, as well as the semantic value of the adverb, are significant factors in the prediction of both forms. Similarly, the factor regarding participant level of bilingualism has a significant effect. We contribute methodologically to the study of the variation of the analytic and synthetic forms of Spanish present progressive aspect given that the instrument employed in the current study controls the linguistic variables and obtains the same number of responses per person, allowing for a comparable evaluation of participants in similar contexts. Finally, we add to the previous literature on this topic by providing evidence that the synthetic and analytic forms appear in variation in a larger number of contexts than previously recognized, allowing for an accurate definition of the variable context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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