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FRAGO GRACIA, Juan Antonio. El Quijote y primicias lingüísticas en México hacia la Independencia. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2016, vol.64, n.2, pp.385-402. ISSN 2448-6558.

This paper analyses some of the influences of Cervantes’s masterpiece on readers of the period in Spanish America as reflected in Mexican books, printed papers and manuscripts. It also provides phonetic data from documentary research that have considerable diachronic relevance to the Spanish American’s linguistic identity. Another notable finding is also mentioned: the importance of the gheada in peninsular dialectology.

Palavras-chave : Quijote in Mexico; ideological and formal influences on its readers; manuscripts and original documents; the Spanish American’s sense of identity; Fernández de Lizardi.