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Sociolinguistic Continuities in Language Contact Situations: The Case of Portuguese in Contact with Spanish along the Uruguayan-Brazilian Border

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April 27, 2012
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04/27/12–Dr. Ana Carvalho:

In this presentation, Dr. Carvalho looks at towns on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border and the characteristics and sociolinguistic facets of the Spanish and Portuguese usage in the population. She argues against the monolectal view, that rather than forming a single Spanish-Portuguese hybrid language, that the languages are in a state of diglossia, influenced by each other, but still distinct.

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