Acomodación en los pronombres de tratamiento de ecuatorianos en España

In this article, I attempt to show the linguistic behaviour of an Ecuadorian-migrated family in Madrid, as well as the social and cognitive parameters that are related to the possible adoption by each of them of the standard Peninsular Spanish address system, regarding its pronouns and its verbal and pronominal morphology. Through a collection of spontaneous data, the uses of three different generations have been measured, each of which exhibits a different behaviour. The results show that the accommodation or the lack of it depends on the sex, the age and the linguistic market pressure, but, above all, the data account for the fact that new linguistic uses are adopted in a gradual process that is correlated to many cross-linguistic phenomena in syntax.