2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT New York-- This city has long been a laboratory for the study of language, a petri dish in which dialects mingle and collide, where linguists have lurked incognito in ...
SAN LUIS VALLEY — Dennis Lopez can trace his lineage here back to 1847, when pioneers from Mexico first put down roots in the area. He still tends to a ranch owned by his wife’s family in San Luis, a ...
Aug. 6—New Mexico is a melting pot of cultures that somehow find influence among one another. A strong example of that is the Spanish dialect in northern New Mexico. The dialect is known as having ...
I’ve discovered something fascinating about how Spanish speakers in Philadelphia address each other and communicate through public signs. The discovery is part of my research on language patterns in ...