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Studies in Southwest Spanish ed. by J. Donald Bowen and Jacob Ornstein (review)

Nine articles, plus bibliography and subject and authors' index are divided into two parts—each preceded by remarks summing up the studies. I Part One, "Linguistic Diversity in Southwest Spanish," by G. Bills and J. Ornstein offers an overview of the heterogeneity Spanish commands but advocates the need to comprehend its unity. The second group represents studies on data from the Cross-Cultural Southwest Ethnic Study Center at the University of Texas at El Paso. David Foster's "The Phonology of Southwest Spanish" is a modest attempt at ascertaining implications of Chicano phonology. "Toward a Grammatical Analysis of Southwest Spanish," by Fritz G. Hensey, is an examination ofgrammatical variations in the Chicano dialect. Jerry R. Craddock's "Lexical Analysis of Southwest Spanish" regards the influence/ interference of English on Spanish (e.g. loanwords, loanblends, and loanshifts). Part Two attests to the scope of Spanish dialectology of the Southwest. Robert N. Phillips Jr.'s "The Segmental Phonology of [East] Los Angeles Spanish," is a semi-technical study of consonantal and vowel phonemes. His findings are, however, encountered elsewhere. J. Donald Bowen's "Structural Analysis of the Verb System in New Mexican Spanish," utilizes data over twenty years old to analyze and describe morphological, phonological and lexical patterns. Regrettably, his comments are presumptuous and perfunctory. In "The English and Spanish Grammar of Chicano Primary School Students," Andrew D. Cohen analyzes the degree of language deviation from "school" Spanish and "school" English. Bernardo Vallejo's "Linguistic and Socio-Economic Correlations in the Spoken Language of Mexican-American Children" merely corroborates an old hypothesis. In "Language Mixing in Chicano Bilingual Speech," Rogelio Reyes contends that "linguistic interference" in bilingualism overloads linguistic processes and hence proposes terms like "spontaneous borrowing" and "incorporated borrowing." Studies in Southwest Spanish is testimony to the importance of Spanish in this region and inducement to renew interest.