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Register variation by Spanish users of English. The Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English

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Kouwenhoven,  Huib
Centre for Language Studies , Radboud University Nijmegen;
International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL;

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Ernestus,  Mirjam
Centre for Language Studies , Radboud University Nijmegen;
Research Associates, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Kouwenhoven, H., Ernestus, M., & Van Mulken, M. (2018). Register variation by Spanish users of English. The Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 14(1), 35-63. doi:10.1515/cllt-2013-0054.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-9F5C-2
Abstract
English serves as a lingua franca in situations with varying degrees of formality. How formality affects non-native speech has rarely been studied. We investigated register variation by Spanish users of English by comparing formal and informal speech from the Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English that we created. This corpus comprises speech from thirty-four Spanish speakers of English in interaction with Dutch confederates in two speech situations. Formality affected the amount of laughter and overlapping speech and the number of Spanish words. Moreover, formal speech had a more informational character than informal speech. We discuss how our findings relate to register variation in Spanish