@article{136976,
  title = {TP-internal focus and dialectal variation: The case of the Focalizing Ser.},
  abstract = { <p>
	<span style="line-height:200\%"><span style="line-height:200\%"><span style={\textquoteright}NewRoman",serif{\textquoteright}>This study examines patterns of variation in the perception of the <i>Focalizing Ser</i> (FS) structure by speakers of Colombian Spanish.~ The FS occurs alongside the standard pseudo-cleft construction and it has been reported in only a few Spanish dialects. We discuss data collected from 371 participants living in five Colombian cities (Barranquilla, Bogot{\'a}, Bucaramanga, Cali, and Medell{\'\i}n). The results of two acceptability judgment tests (128 sentences tested in both audio and written formats) confirm that FS is an acceptable structure and indicate similar acceptability tendencies across the country: Prepositional Phrases, Complementizer/Inflectional Phrases, and Complex Verbal Phrases are the most accepted FS-focused sentence types, whereas Sentence-Final FS is the least accepted. A comparison of these results with those obtained from our previous study in the Dominican Republic (M{\'e}ndez Vallejo 2015a) show some analogous tendencies even across macro-varieties. </span></span></span>
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  year = {2019},
  journal = {Linguistics Vanguard},
  volume = {5},
  url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2019.5.issue-1/lingvan-2018-0001/lingvan-2018-0001.xml?format=INT},
  language = {eng},
}