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This is the official program for SWCOLT/PLAN 2022.
Join us Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2022 at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino (GSR) in Reno, Nevada.
Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Thursday, March 24, 2022.
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Friday, March 25 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Two Imperfections in Spanish Orthography: A Suggestion for the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española

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Spanish enjoys a nearly phonemic alphabet. However, two easily corrected defects remain after the official changes made in 2010. Two recommendations will be made in this presentation: (1) use an accent mark on three stressed monosyllabic words—lá, sí, mí—when they refer to musical tones, and (2) regularize the use of the letters 'g' and 'j' to represent the phoneme /x/. The current usage represents the etymology of vocabulary, but few modern speakers know the historical difference between the 'g' in coger and the 'j' in mujer. Contextual examples will be shared to illustrate the need for an updated orthography.
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Tom Mathews

Professor of Spanish, Weber State University
I have taught Spanish language, linguistics and pedagogy at the university level for 33 years. Before that, I taught junior high school Spanish and lower-division Spanish while I was a graduate student. I teach courses on methodology, Spanish linguistics, and composition.

Friday March 25, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Nevada 1
  60-minute session