Dialects from tropical islands : Caribbean Spanish in the United States / edited by Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez and Melvin González-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valentín-Márquez, Wilfredo, editor.

González-Rivera, Melvin, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Dialects--Caribbean Area.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Dialects--United States.

Spanish language--Dialects.

United States.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish--Caribbean Area.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish.

Caribbean Area.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Language Note:

Text in English and Spanish.

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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 Valentín-Márquez

Morphology and Syntax. Explaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York City / Carolina Barrera-Tobón & Rocío Raña Risso

The Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage Speakers / Anade Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez Soler

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-María Suárez Büdenbender

Aquí 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. Caribeño Identity / Teresa Satterfield & José R. Benkí, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dialects from tropical islands

ISBN:

9781138069756

1138069752

OCLC:

1110656859