Our first colloquium of the semester is this coming Friday at the usual time and place (3:00pm, Curtin 124)! Details:
Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Soy los dos”: Spanish and identity among “MexiRicans.” “MexiRican” individuals grow up in the U.S. with one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent. What does their Spanish look like after being exposed to these two distinct dialects from birth? This study explores several features of their Spanish, including their knowledge of Mexican and Puerto Rican lexicon and their realizations of coda /s/ and of trilled /r/. It then describes the ways in which they perform identities as mixed ethnicity Latinos and the role that the Spanish language plays in their identities.