Faculty Work
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title Title
Divergencias: Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios
Volume
2
Issue
2
First Page
27
Last Page
39
Abstract
This paper examines the gender assignment of English words in the Spanish of Southern Arizona based on the categories of biological sex, phonological gender, and analogical gender. It is determined that biological sex is the greatest indicator of gender assignment, followed by phonological gender and lastly by analogical gender. There was a small (7.9%) proportion of variation in gender assignment to English words in the corpus that is attributed to a combination of words that are neither phonologically nor socially integrated into the Spanish lexicon and the linguistic insecurity of the participants.
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Original Publication Date
2004
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library
Copyright
©2004 Elise DuBord
Date Digital
2004
Language
EN
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
DuBord, Elise M., "Gender Assignment to English Words in the Spanish of Southern Arizona" (2004). Faculty Work. 2.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ll_facpub/2
Comments
First published in Divergencias: Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios, v.2 n.2 (2004), pp.27-39, published by the University of Arizona.