I work in the area of L2/L3 influence on native languages; will you be including the influence of other acquired languages on the Spanish? My colleague at work is from Puerto Rico, and she says that the people of the interior of the island use their pronunciations and constructions from Taino when they speak Spanish. I am also interested in whether or not you are asking the participants if they use texting language/mobile phone language - even I have noticed that I am beginning to use texting constructions in my speech patterns. Best of luck!
Hi Susan,
I am not certain if this is a question in general or you are responding to someone else. But since it is in the question area, let's go with that.
Given your focus on L2/L3 influence, you are familiar with the work in inter-language phenomena and/or accommodation theory. Both of these areas of research would predict that there would be the kind of influence that you speak of in speech patterns of speakers exposed to multiple languages assuming that there are affective factors that show preference to the non-native languages. Additionally, Larry Selinker's work in this area and the work of James Flege (from UA-Birmingham) provide empirical data for such inter-language phenomena. So based on Giles' work in accommodation (and even the Alan Bell work on Audience Design), such influence can be expected in some speakers.
The question about texting language is an interesting question and I have seen only work that we have done on the influence of texting on the recovery patterns of individuals with Aphasia...but accommodation theory and audience design have correctly predicted some of those patterns. I would think that given that writing is influenced (as all language modalities typically are ) by the affective variables so that such inter-language influence is often present, that the same would occur with texting.....hey, it IS an empirical questions! Good luck on this research.
Jack
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