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A topic deserving of research is that of Hispanics in the U.S. This study views the similiarities and differences of morpho-syntactic erosion between two generational groups of Spanish speakers in the U.S. The focus is on spoken Spanish in high school-aged students. There are three main sections analyzing erosion: agreement, verbs, and elements (omission, additional, and misapplication). A comparison was made based on the information in Hispanic communities throughout the United States. Certain patterns of first language erosion were compared to second language acquisition.

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The Author: Elizabeth A. Martinez is a newly appointed assistant professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. Born in New York, of a Spanish father and American mother, she lived as a child in Spain and later received two fellowships to conduct doctoral work at the Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana in Madrid, Spain. Aside from these awards, she received a fellowship from Sigma Delta Pi, a Spanish Honor Society, and has been selected for Who's Who in the South and Southwest for 1991. She received a B.A. from Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales (PA) and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University at Albany (S.U.N.Y.). Dr. Martinez has taught at the University at Albany (S.U.N.Y.) and at the University of Florida.

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