Hugo Salgado

Iowa State University | ISU · Department of World Languages & Cultures

Spanish vowel-final loans are consistently adopted in modern Nahuan languages with an added glottal phoneme: Spanish mesa > Nahuan mesah ‘table’. This adaptation is puzzling because there is no obvious aspect of the phonological nor morphological grammar of Nahuan that motivates it. We present evidence that, due to the weakened voicing of Spanish u...

Pipil is an under-documented and severely endangered Uto-Aztecan language spoken in El Salvador. In this thesis, using data from four native speakers of Pipil, I describe topological relations and frames of reference in the Santo Domingo de Guzmán (SD) dialect of Pipil with a typological and historical approach. I find that SD Pipil is a Type Ib la...

Nawat, the highly endangered indigenous language of El Salvador, is undergoing a revitalization process. This dissertation, conceived within this context, focuses on the second-language (L2) acquisition of features of Nawat pronunciation by learners who have Salvadoran Spanish as their first language (L1). Specifically, I assess the acquisition of...

Este es un libro digital e interactivo para nivel básico elemental del náhuat de El Salvador. En sus 15 lecciones sigue el método de "aprendizaje por medio de acciones". El libro integra las últimas tecnologías para hacer una herramienta con una gran diversidad de aplicaciones interactivas como audios, grabarse y escucharse, videos interactivos, cr...

The stop inventory of Witzapan Nawat, a critically endangered indigenous language of El Salvador, has been traditionally described as consisting only of a voiceless series /p t k kw/. In this paper, I measure the VOT, consonant duration, and percent voicing in stops produced by five L1 Witzapan Nawat speakers. I find that, while /p t kw/ have acous...

Spanish shows variation between two future expressions. The synthetic future (SF) is marked morphologically while the periphrastic future (PF) is constructed with the verb ir 'to go' and an infinitive. Previous studies have described the semantic factors that determine the use of these expressions. The effects of priming in the selection of these e...

This diatopic study examines the characteristics of the locative adverb constructions that select possessive pronouns as complements in Peninsular Spanish oral corpora. Firstly, the range of locative adverbs that take part in this construction are scrutinised, as well as their frequency of use with respect to that of their counterparts, in which a...

Aspirated fricatives are rare sounds cross-linguistically. This study focuses on the phonetic description of the aspirated coronal fricative /sʰ/ in Sgaw Karen. Our phonetic study found that aspiration in /sʰ/ is significantly shorter than aspiration in aspirated stops in Sgaw Karen. However, it behaves analogously to aspiration in stops in that it...