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The Characteristics of Costa Rican Spanish
Hajská, Karolína ; Mištinová, Anna (advisor) ; Čermák, Petr (referee)
This work deals with the variant of Spanish in Costa Rica and together with the phonological, morphosyntactical and lexical aspects examines languages in conctact and its influence on the lexical system. Apart from the data published in the Linguistic-enthnographic Atlas of Costa Rica the work presents also an investigation made by the author among the inhabitants of the central part of Costa Rica and compares it with other publications of the local lingüists who deal with the dialectal differences in the concrete area. At the same time its aim is to caracterize the Costa Rican variant in terms of the diversity related to the other types of Spanish and highlight the elements which appear exclusively in the speech of the inhabitants of Costa Rica. Key words: Costa Rican Spanish, phonetics, morfosyntax, vocabulary, languages in contact

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