Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish

Brandon Baird, Ph.D. (2014), University of Texas, Austin, is associate professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies and Linguistics at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). His research focuses on bilingual phonetics and phonology, Guatemalan Spanish, and Mayan languages.Osmer Balam, Ph.D. (2016), University of Florida, is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster (Ohio, USA). His research focuses on Belizean Spanish, Spanish in the U.S., code-switching, and bilingual morphosyntax.M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Ph.D. (2005), University of Kansas, is María Zambrano senior researcher at the University of Vigo (Spain) and university lecturer (Latin American Studies, Linguistics) at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on the impact of multilingualism and language contact on language structure, with emphasis on multilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps, and TablesNotes on Contributors1 On the Linguistic Analysis of Central American Spanish in Monolingual and Bi/Multilingual ContextsBrandon Baird, Osmer Balam, and M. Carmen Parafita Couto2 Rhotic Variation in Northern Belize: Beyond Tap-Trill Contrast MaintenanceTrevor Bero3 Phonological Contrast Maintenance and Language ContactAn Examination of the Spanish Rhotic System in a Bilingual Guatemalan Speech CommunitySean McKinnon4 Variation of Absolute-Final /s/ in Tegucigalpa SpanishJulio Ventura and Brandon Baird5 Social Evaluations of Onset /s/ Lenition in Salvadoran SpanishFranny D. Brogan, Lia Slotten, and Juan Manuel Menjívar6 An Initial ToBI Analysis of Costa Rican Spanish IntonationEva Patricia Velásquez Upegui7 Two Contact Induced Grammatical Changes in Spanish in Contact with Tz’utujil in GuatemalaAna Isabel García Tesoro8 Big Data and Small Dialects: Transitive andar in Central American SpanishShannon P. Rodríguez and Chad Howe9 Variable Number Marking in Mosquito Coast SpanishMadeline Critchfield10 The Historical Evolution of Usted in Costa Rican SpanishMunia Cabal-Jiménez11 Rates and Constraints of Present Perfect and Preterit in Costa Rican Spanish: A Variationist ApproachJavier Rivas and Érick García Pineda12 Address Pronouns in Panamanian SpanishA Historical OverviewMiguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco13 Corner-Store Service Encounters in Nicaraguan Spanish in a Rural SettingJeff Michno, Evan Colby Myers and Will Przedpelski14 Central American Spanish: Then, Now, and OnwardJohn M. LipskiIndex