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  2. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Patterns of intonation differ significantly according to dialect, and native speakers of Spanish use intonation to quickly identify different accents. To give some examples, intonation patterns differ between Peninsular and Mexican Spanish, and also between northern Mexican Spanish and accents of the center and south of the country.

  3. Mexican Spanish - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Spanish language in Mexico This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Mexican Spanish" – news · newspapers · books · scholar ...

  4. Chicano English - Wikipedia

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    Gloria Anzaldúa — "I spoke English like a Mexican. At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents." [28] César Chávez — "His speech was soft, sweetened by a Spanish accent" [29] George Lopez — "Chicanos are their own breed. Even though we're born ...

  5. Spanish language in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    In this sense Hispanic American Spanish is closer to the dialects spoken in the south of Spain. [citation needed] See List of words having different meanings in Spain and Hispanic America. Most Hispanic American Spanish usually features yeísmo: there is no distinction between ll and y . However realization varies greatly from region to region.

  6. Cuban Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The accent of La Palma is the closest of the Canary Island accents to the Cuban accent. Many Cubans and returning Canarians settled in the Canary Islands after the revolution of 1959. Migration of other Spanish settlers (Asturians, Catalans, Castilians), and especially Galicians [2] also occurred, but left less influence on the accent.

  7. Peninsular Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Thus, in Spain, words like Atlántico and atleta are pronounced according to the syllabication At-lán-ti-co and at-le-ta. Instead, in Mexico, the pronunciation follows the syllabication A-tlán-ti-co and a-tle-ta. [16] [17] voseo is the use of the second person singular informal pronoun vos which comes with different verb forms compared to tú ...

  8. Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions. The main three realizations are the phonemic distinction between /θ/ and /s/ (distinción), the presence of only alveolar [] (), or, less commonly, the presence of only a denti-alveolar [] that is similar to /θ/ ().

  9. Standard Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, its continued use has produced a degree of familiarization with a certain abstract phonetics throughout Spanish America. Dubbings made in Spain, are very particularly localized due to both the language politics of Francoist Spain and later assumptions by Spanish audiences. As Disney has re-issued its productions in newer media or ...