%0 Journal Article %T El Voseo Andino Tachirense: £¿Marca de G¨¦nero? %A Freites Barros %A Francisco %A Zambrano Castro %A W¨ªlmer %J Boletin de Linguistica %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the gradual obsolescence of the pronoun vos intachira£¿s speech community has motivated this study, the purpose of which is to determine the social and linguistic factors that still support this formof address.asurvey has been applied to a group of speakers in the region. the results show that the use of vos and the desire to be addressed with this pronoun are below 1%. even though this term of address reflects speakers£¿ marginal behavior and it has very little prestige among the andeans, the pronoun vos is still used in the slang of a segment of the tachira£¿s population: the young men who live in the city seem to use vos as a mark of identity and cohesion %K pronoun vos %K andean spanish %K venezuelan spanish. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97092007000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en