TY - BOOK ID - 11958939 TI - Portuguese-Spanish interfaces : diachrony, synchrony, and contact AU - Amaral, Patrícia Matos AU - Carvalho, Ana Maria PY - 2014 SN - 9789027258007 9027258007 1322205906 9027270171 9789027270177 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Languages in contact KW - Portuguese language KW - Spanish language KW - Intercultural communication KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Social aspects. KW - Grammar. KW - Iberian Peninsula KW - Latin America KW - Languages. KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Cross-cultural communication KW - Communication KW - Culture KW - Cross-cultural orientation KW - Cultural competence KW - Multilingual communication KW - Technical assistance KW - Castilian language KW - Romance languages KW - Areal linguistics KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries KW - Neotropical region KW - Neotropics KW - New World tropics KW - Spanish America KW - Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Hispánica, Península KW - Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Ibérica, Península KW - Península Hispánica KW - Península Ibérica UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11958939 AB - Western hemisphere varieties of Spanish and Portuguese show substantial similarity in the patterning of sociolinguistic variation and change. Caribbean and coastal dialects of Latin American Spanish share several variables with Brazilian Portuguese (e.g., deletion of coda -s, -r). These variables also show similar social distribution in Hispanic and Lusophone communities: formal styles and high status speakers are consonantally conservative, while higher deletion is associated with working class speakers and informal styles. The regions that show these sociolinguistic parallels also share comm ER -