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Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Generational change in the conditioning of coda /r/ manner of articulation in Lorain Puerto Rican Spanish Mary Elizabeth Beaton ; Wang Zhe [1] [1] Denison University, Granville, OH, USA Localización: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics, ISSN-e 2199-3386, ISSN 1939-0238, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 2025, págs.
1 INTRODUCTION Between 2013 and 2016, Natalia Lugo rose to fame in Puerto Rico through her YouTube portrayal of Francheska, a fictional character Lugo first created in an acting class. Francheska is a parody of the yal, a “characterological figure” (Agha, 2003) that evokes the imagined poor Puerto Rican woman who lives in public housing, similar to the figure of the “welfare queen” in the mainland United States.
Open AccessArticle by Christina García 1,*, Abby Walker 2 and Mary Beaton 3 1 Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA 2 Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA 3 Department of Modern Languages, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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