Question: Spanish Dialects in the United States -- speech pathology

[Scott McGinnis]

Date:  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:54:47 -0500
From:  Rick Mc Callister <rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu>
Subject:  Spanish dialects in US/Speech Pathology

	Deborah Vega, a Speech Pathology student at my college, is looking
for bibliography and contacts with specialists in Spanish in the US,
including Speech Pathologists.
	Please contact her directly at <dav at sunmuw1.MUW.Ed>
Rick Mc Callister


I want to discuss the characteristics among different dialects of
Latin American Spanish among immigrant groups in the US.  If possible
I would like to study 3 subgroups of Hispanics - Mexican, Cuban,
Puerto rican, etc... From this information I want to develop materials
and a plan specific to each group that Speech Pathologists can use to
accomplish accent reduction.  I will then use the plan I develop and
test it using 5-10 subjects from each group studied and see how
effective each plan was in accomplishing accent reduction.

I would appreciate information on materials, books, articles, etc.
that discuss dialect differences among Hispanics.  Any contacts with
specialists would be wonderful!!

Thank you very much again
Deborah