Spanish in Chicago

by Kim Potowski

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326142
• ISBN13: 9780199326143
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages