Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States

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Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States provides a comprehensive account of current research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas. This edited volume highlights current scholarship and linguistic analyses in four major areas relative to Caribbean Spanish in the United States: phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage-language acquisition. This volume will be of interest to linguists and philologists who specialize in Spanish, Caribbean Spanish, Spanish in the United States, or in Romance languages in general. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments List of contributors Introduction: Caribbean Spanish dialects in the United States: theoretical, empirical, and sociolinguistic perspectives SECTION 1 Phonetics and phonology 1 Rhotic realizations of the Puerto Rican community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto Rico 2 Differences in the use of /l/ and /ɾ/ in two communities of Puerto Rican Spanish speakers in the United States 3 Laterals in contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/ 4 Se comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: observations on coda sibilant elision, retention, and insertion in popular Dominican(-American) Spanish 5 The sociolinguistic distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, Michigan SECTION 2 Morphology and syntax 6 Explaining pronominal subject placement variation across two generations of Caribbean Spanish speakers in New York City 7 The effect of person on the subject expression of Spanish heritage speakers SECTION 3 Sociolinguistic perspectives 8 Evidence of creolized English grammar in the Spanish of Dominicanos on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands 9 Puerto Rican evaluations of varieties of Spanish 10 Aquí no se cogen las guaguas: language and Puerto Rican identity in San Diego 11 Caribbean Spanish influenced by African American English: US Afro-Spanish language and the new US Caribeño identity Index