Carol Anne Klee

About

Carol Anne Klee is a professor affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, with a focus on Spanish linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Texas, along with an M.A. in Hispanic Literatures from the same institution and a B.A. in Spanish from the College of Wooster. Her research primarily concentrates on Spanish language contact, dialect contact, sociolinguistics, and content-based language instruction. She has contributed extensively to the understanding of linguistic variation and change in Spanish, particularly in contact situations such as migration and globalization, with a notable focus on Peruvian Spanish and dialect contact phenomena. Klee has authored and edited numerous publications, including books and articles on Spanish sociolinguistics, language contact, and applied linguistics, and she actively participates in scholarly activities as an editor and member of editorial boards. Her work also explores issues related to language variation, migration, and heritage language maintenance, making significant contributions to the field of Hispanic linguistics.

Research topics

• Humanities
• Philosophy
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Art
• Mathematics education
• Epistemology
• Engineering
• Pedagogy
• Engineering ethics

Selected publications

• Variation and Change in Peruvian Spanish Word Order: Language Contact and Dialect Contact in Lima

  EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University (Cleveland State University) · 2011-12-01 · 44 citations

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  Previous studies have revealed that the direct object/verb (OV) word order typical of Quechua and Aymara is also prevalent in Andean Spanish. The current study examines the frequency of such structures in Lima, Peru, where massive migration over the past 60 years has brought speakers of Andean indigenous languages and rural Andean Spanish into close contact with speakers of limeño Spanish. Goldvarb analysis of data from 34 participants (seven first-generation migrants, six 1.5-generation migrant…

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• Migración y contacto en Lima: el pretérito perfecto en las cláusulas narrativas

  e_Buah · 2012-01-01 · 38 citations

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  El presente artículo aborda las alternancias entre pretérito perfecto simple y compuesto en las cláusulas narrativas de narraciones orales de hablantes andinos y limeños en el contacto migratorio en la capital peruana. El español andino es una modalidad devaluada en esta ciudad frente a la prestigiosa limeña, y presenta entre otras características distintivas un uso mayor del pretérito perfecto compuesto en situaciones en que la variedad limeña usaría el simple. Un valor paradigmático del pretér…

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• Sociolingüística aplicada a la enseñanza del español / Applied Sociolinguistics in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT)

  Journal of Spanish Language Teaching · 2021 · 17 citations

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  (2021). Sociolingüística aplicada a la enseñanza del español / Applied Sociolinguistics in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT) Journal of Spanish Language Teaching: Vol. 8, Applied Sociolinguistics in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT): Social Environment and Language Use / Sociolingüística aplicada a la enseñanza del español: entorno social y uso de la lengua, pp. 105-113.

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• Measuring /s/ variation among younger generations in a migrant settlement in Lima, Peru

  Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics · 2018-04-25 · 10 citations

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  Abstract This study analyzes the pronunciation of /s/ in the Spanish of young adults in a newer migrant settlement in metropolitan Lima, Peru. The participants have parents and/or grandparents who migrated to Lima primarily from the Andean provinces, where the sibilant pronunciation of /s/ prevails. The study examines a variety of social factors, including migrant generation, family origin, gender, education, occupation, and social networks to determine the factors that correlate with /s/ weaken…

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• Afterword. Migration, ethnic identity and heritage language maintenance of Spanish-speaking youth in English-speaking societies

  Studies in bilingualism · 2011-03-11 · 8 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Rocío Caravedo

  8 shared

• Paul Greengard

  Rockefeller University

  4 shared

• Fernando R. Ibarra

  University of Buenos Aires

  4 shared

• Ray M Wakefield

  University of Minnesota

  4 shared

• Diane J. Tedick

  4 shared

• Anita Aperia

  4 shared

• Dale A. Koike

  4 shared

• Leif Svensson

  Karolinska Institutet

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Ricardo A. Narváez Award for outstanding service and great d…
• Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award (2011…
• The Emma Birkmaier Award of the Minnesota Council on the Tea…

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