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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.
Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University.Melvin González-Rivera is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroductionWilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-RiveraSection 1. Phonetics and PhonologyRhotic Realizations of the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto RicoAlba AriasDifferences in the Use of /l/ and /r/ in Two Communities of Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers in the United StatesMichelle F. Ramos PelliciaLaterals in Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/Brandon M. A. Rogers & Scott M. AlvordSe comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: Observations on Coda Sibilant Elision, Retention, and Insertion in Popular Dominican(-American) Spanish Almeida Jacqueline Toribio & Aris Moreno ClemonsThe Sociolinguistic Distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, MichiganWilfredo Valentín-MárquezSection 2. Morphology and SyntaxExplaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York CityCarolina Barrera-Tobón & Rocío Raña RissoThe Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage SpeakersAna de Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez SolerSection 3. Sociolinguistic PerspectivesEvidence of Creolized English Grammar in the Spanish of Dominicans on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin IslandsDaniel S. D’ArpaPuerto Rican Evaluations of Varieties of SpanishEva-María Suárez BüdenbenderAquí no se cogen las guaguas: Language and Puerto Rican Identity in San DiegoAna Celia ZentellaCaribbean Spanish Influenced by African-American English: U.S. Afro-Spanish Language and the New U.S. Caribeño IdentityTeresa Satterfield & José R. Benkí, Jr.Index