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Carmen Silva-Corvalan

Expert in the sociolinguistics of Spanish through time and space, including U.S. dialects

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor of Linguistics
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-1268 or csilva@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • Spanish in the U.S.
  • social and geographic varieties of Spanish
  • linguistic aspects of bilingualism
  • Spanish linguistics
  • sociolinguistics
  • Latin American dialectology and sociolinguistics
Additional Information:
  • Author of Sociolinguistica: Teoria y analisis (1989) and Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (1996)
  • Editor of Spanish in Four Continents (1995)
  • Co-editor of Studies in Romance Linguistics (1986) and Bilinguismo y Adquisicion del Español (1992)

Foreign Languages:
Spanish