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Dialects from Tropical Islands Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez (Millersville University, USA)

Dialects from Tropical Islands By Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez (Millersville University, USA)

Summary

Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States provides a comprehensive account of current research on Caribbean Spanish in the US from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas.

Dialects from Tropical Islands Summary

Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States by Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez (Millersville University, USA)

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.

About Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez (Millersville University, USA)

Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University.

Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez & Melvin Gonzalez-Rivera

Section 1. Phonetics and Phonology

Rhotic Realizations of the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto Rico

Alba Arias

Differences in the Use of /l/ and /r/ in Two Communities of Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers in the United States

Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia

Laterals in Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/

Brandon M. A. Rogers & Scott M. Alvord

Se 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 Clemons

The Sociolinguistic Distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez

Section 2. Morphology and Syntax

Explaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York City

Carolina Barrera-Tobon & Rocio Rana Risso

The Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage Speakers

Ana de Prada Perez & Inmaculada Gomez Soler

Section 3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Evidence of Creolized English Grammar in the Spanish of Dominicans on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Daniel S. D'Arpa

Puerto Rican Evaluations of Varieties of Spanish

Eva-Maria Suarez Budenbender

Aqui no se cogen las guaguas: Language and Puerto Rican Identity in San Diego

Ana Celia Zentella

Caribbean Spanish Influenced by African-American English: U.S. Afro-Spanish Language and the New U.S. Caribeno Identity

Teresa Satterfield & Jose R. Benki, Jr.

Index

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NLS9781032176789
9781032176789
1032176784
Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States by Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez (Millersville University, USA)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-30
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