Las distintas formas de ser un inmigrante bidialectal: el caso de los argentinos en España
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varieties of Spanish in contact, immigration,, divergence, accommodation (convergence)Abstract
This paper aims at analysing the accommodation (convergence) of young immigrants, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but living in Malaga, Spain (n = 22). Our main goals are a) to establish why young immigrants adopt different linguistic behaviour in regard to their variety of origin (spoken by their parents, D1-BAS) and the new variety they have contact with as a result of immigration (D2-MAL), b) to determine what this behaviour reveals about their individual characteristics and the speech communities to which they belong to. Attention has been focused on several linguistic levels: phonology, morphology (syntax) and lexis. Based on our results, the immigrants were classified by two-step cluster analysis in three groups: one is almost completely divergent (conserving D1-BAS), another shows mixed linguistic behaviour and seems to be bidialectal (D1+D2), and
the third exhibits almost full accommodation towards D2-MAL. This paper aims to be a comprehensive analysis of how speakers readjust their own varieties and display new identities through accommodation (convergence) or divergence.
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