Within the framework of the communication accommodation theory, the present study evaluates the extent to which Spanish-speaking migrants from the Bolivian Andes to San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) accommodate their speech to Chilean Spanish, using a comparative sociolinguistics methodology. Four ...

In my study, I analyze different strategies that are used to transform the canonical word order of English for specific discourse effects, for example, for putting emphasis on certain elements in a clause. The syntactic strategies investigated involve different types of cleft constructions ("it was ...