Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish

This article examines the perception and production of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure by Dominican speakers living in three urban communities: Santiago de los Caballeros, Sosúa, and Santo Domingo de Guzmán. FS has received increasing attention over the past years and several studies have investi...

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Autor principal:	Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015
Materias:	Information structure Syntactic Variation Focalizing Ser Dominican Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:39cc9e602276476a984322254afeba892021-11-25T11:16:54ZChanging the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/39cc9e602276476a984322254afeba892015-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/2https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138 This article examines the perception and production of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure by Dominican speakers living in three urban communities: Santiago de los Caballeros, Sosúa, and Santo Domingo de Guzmán. FS has received increasing attention over the past years and several studies have investigated it from various linguistic perspectives in Spanish varieties where it is typically found (e.g. Venezuelan Spanish and Colombian Spanish). Although previously reported in Dominican Spanish (Toribio 2002, Alba 2004), FS has still not been extensively analyzed in this variety. The results of three different tests (two acceptability judgment tests and one semi-production test) indicate that FS is certainly entrenched in Dominican speakers’ linguistic inventory and that certain focus types (e.g. FS-focused subject and object DPs, FS-focused CPs and IPs, FS- focused complex VPs, and FS-focused prepositional phrases) are more favorably perceived and more frequently produced across all FS dialects. Dunia Catalina Méndez VallejoUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleInformation structureSyntactic VariationFocalizing SerDominican SpanishRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2015)
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topic	Information structure Syntactic Variation Focalizing Ser Dominican Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Information structure Syntactic Variation Focalizing Ser Dominican Spanish Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish
description	This article examines the perception and production of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure by Dominican speakers living in three urban communities: Santiago de los Caballeros, Sosúa, and Santo Domingo de Guzmán. FS has received increasing attention over the past years and several studies have investigated it from various linguistic perspectives in Spanish varieties where it is typically found (e.g. Venezuelan Spanish and Colombian Spanish). Although previously reported in Dominican Spanish (Toribio 2002, Alba 2004), FS has still not been extensively analyzed in this variety. The results of three different tests (two acceptability judgment tests and one semi-production test) indicate that FS is certainly entrenched in Dominican speakers’ linguistic inventory and that certain focus types (e.g. FS-focused subject and object DPs, FS-focused CPs and IPs, FS- focused complex VPs, and FS-focused prepositional phrases) are more favorably perceived and more frequently produced across all FS dialects.
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title	Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish
title_short	Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish
title_full	Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish
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Changing the focus: An empirical study of "Focalizing ser" (‘to be’) in Dominican Spanish

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