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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,735 Views
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Phonetically Based Corpora for Anglicisms: A Tijuana–San Diego Contact Outcome

  • Ruben Roberto Peralta-Rivera,
  • Carlos Ivanhoe Gil-Burgoin and
  • Norma Esthela Valenzuela-Miranda

Research in Loanword Phonology has extensively examined the adaptation processes of Anglicisms into recipient languages. In the Tijuana–San Diego border region, where English and Spanish have reciprocally existed, Anglicisms exhibit two main ph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Linguistic Boundaries: From the Acquisition of Languages to Multilingual Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
814 Views
16 Pages

Morphosyntactic Integration of Single-Word Anglicisms in Border Mexican Spanish

  • Ruben Roberto Peralta-Rivera and
  • Rafael Saldívar-Arreola

Loanword Research on Anglicisms has largely centered on lexical borrowing and phonological adaptation with comparatively limited attention to morphosyntactic integration in recipient grammars. This study examines the morphosyntactic behavior of 74 si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shifting Borders: Spanish Morphosyntax in Contact Zones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,808 Views
18 Pages

31 August 2024

Previous research shows that several factors influence the adaptation of English phonemes in Spanish Anglicisms: speaker age, English proficiency, and geographic distance from the U.S.A, among others.Due to globalization, increased mobility, and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phonetics and Phonology of Ibero-Romance Languages)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,028 Views
20 Pages

In this study, translation students and instructors at Chilean universities were asked about their perception and treatment of five grammatical features of Spanish, which, despite constituting Hispanic developments independent of any English influenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,691 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2025

Humor is a pragmatic and interdisciplinary phenomenon whose sociocultural relevance has been increasingly recognized by the Academia. Surprisingly, although the anthropo-philosophical theory of homo risu emerged in the 7th century, linguists became i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Pragmatics in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,428 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2021

There is no doubt that the Internet, where English is ubiquitous, has revolutionized our way of life. Socially, it has opened frontiers to such an extent that nowadays human beings can be permanently connected, no matter the distance between them, in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Key Aspects of 21st Century Informal Interactions: Socio-Pragmatic and Formal Features)
  • Article
  • Open Access
680 Views
18 Pages

“Libre de Gluten” or “Gluten-Free”? The Influence of Loanwords on Conceptual Representation

  • Claudia Ariadna Acero-Ortega,
  • Aurora Pintor-Jardines,
  • Oxana Lazo,
  • Iván Méndez and ,
  • José M. Remes-Troche and
  • Sergio Erick García-Barrón
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30 July 2026

The expansion of the gluten-free food market is driven by two distinct factors: medical prescriptions for people with celiac disease, and lifestyle adoption among non-celiac consumers. This study examines how the use of the English term “gluten...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensory and Consumer Sciences)
  • Erratum
  • Open Access
2,304 Views
1 Page

17 September 2019

The Editorial Office of Languages wants to make the following corrections to the paper (Echeverría and González-Fernández 2019)[...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,545 Views
23 Pages

While speakers of German have adopted many loanwords from other languages throughout history, recent diversification of language use in Germany is mainly driven by the global mobility of English. Previous research has therefore focused on various dom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Linguistics of Social Media)
  • Comment
  • Open Access
2 Citations
14,831 Views
8 Pages

A careful reading of Bonnail et al. (2019)’s work points out some issues in the description of the Ganges River, e.g., describing it in a way that gives impression to the readers unfamiliar with the Indian rivers that it flows by the national c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,927 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2023

This diachronic study is a variationist analysis of subject pronoun expression (SPE) in two key Spanish-language Arizonan newspapers, El Fronterizo (1878–1914) and El Tucsonense (1915–1957), following Tucson’s annexation to the Unit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Language Variation and Change in Spanish)