New zones of language contact: A first look at the Spanish in Rural Oklahoma Corpus
Document Type
Paper Presentation
Presenter Language
English
Research Area
Spanish in the US
Location
MBSC Dodge Room 302
Start Date
17-10-2024 4:30 PM
End Date
17-10-2024 5:00 PM
Abstract
A significant number of the Latino population in Oklahoma is bilingual in English and Spanish. A large share of this population resides in rural areas where they make up just over fifty percent of the total population as is the case for Guymon, Oklahoma where much of this project takes place (US Census Bureau, 2020). A large majority of the documentation of Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism in the United States has taken place in larger urban centers in states such as New York, California, Florida, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico (Lipski, 2008). In these urban contexts, we see innovative language features that challenge the ways we view the separation of languages (Lipski, 2008; Klee and Lynch, 2009). In addition, these urban centers feature Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin speakers. Other varieties such as those used by Latinos in Oklahoma of Guatemalan, Honduran, and Ecuadorian origin is has been relatively neglected. The current presentation discusses the process of corpus-buliding of Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism in rural Oklahoma. In addition, we discuss initial findings on how languages are used in the region. We aim to offer this corpus as open access to facilitate future quantitative and qualitative studies for researchers, emerging scholars, and students in many different fields. We will also discuss how the Spanish in Rural Oklahoma corpus can help inform the development of teaching reference materials, dictionaries, course content and materials for language learners.
Keywords: Spanish in the US, Spanish-English bilingualism, Corpus linguistics, language contact
Klee, Carol and Andrew Lynch. 2009. El español en contacto con otras lenguas. Washington,
D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Lipski, John. 2008. Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press.
US Census Bureau (2020). Guymon, OK
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/guymoncityoklahoma/POP010220
New zones of language contact: A first look at the Spanish in Rural Oklahoma Corpus
MBSC Dodge Room 302
A significant number of the Latino population in Oklahoma is bilingual in English and Spanish. A large share of this population resides in rural areas where they make up just over fifty percent of the total population as is the case for Guymon, Oklahoma where much of this project takes place (US Census Bureau, 2020). A large majority of the documentation of Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism in the United States has taken place in larger urban centers in states such as New York, California, Florida, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico (Lipski, 2008). In these urban contexts, we see innovative language features that challenge the ways we view the separation of languages (Lipski, 2008; Klee and Lynch, 2009). In addition, these urban centers feature Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin speakers. Other varieties such as those used by Latinos in Oklahoma of Guatemalan, Honduran, and Ecuadorian origin is has been relatively neglected. The current presentation discusses the process of corpus-buliding of Spanish and Spanish-English bilingualism in rural Oklahoma. In addition, we discuss initial findings on how languages are used in the region. We aim to offer this corpus as open access to facilitate future quantitative and qualitative studies for researchers, emerging scholars, and students in many different fields. We will also discuss how the Spanish in Rural Oklahoma corpus can help inform the development of teaching reference materials, dictionaries, course content and materials for language learners.
Keywords: Spanish in the US, Spanish-English bilingualism, Corpus linguistics, language contact
Klee, Carol and Andrew Lynch. 2009. El español en contacto con otras lenguas. Washington,
D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Lipski, John. 2008. Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press.
US Census Bureau (2020). Guymon, OK
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/guymoncityoklahoma/POP010220