Excerpt from Studies in New Mexican Spanish; Part I, Phonology: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Romance)

Since 1846, New Mexico has been a part of the United States of North America, and the spanish-speaking inhabitants have been in direct and necessary contact with the English language, which has, in the brief period of fifty years, already influenced New Mexican Spanish in many respects, especially in vocabulary.

The changes from English into Spanish are very interesting and offer many points of comparison with the changes observed in the passage of words from Germanic into Old Spanish. For these reasons, this matter is treated in a separate chapter)

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