Cuban Spanish Dialectology : Variation, Contact, and Change / editor, Alejandro Cuza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuza, Alejandro, editor.

Series:

Georgetown studies in Spanish linguistics.

The Georgetown studies in Spanish linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Cuba.

Sociolinguistics.

Spanish language--Dialects--Cuba.

Spanish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 308 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This edited volume aims to provide a comprehensive collection of current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas. It features studies from four major areas relative to Cuban Spanish dialectology: phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Due to Cuba's relative isolation since the mid-20th century, there has been little empirical research on this Spanish dialect. This volume seeks to fill that gap in the literature, conceiving of Cuban Spanish as both the Spanish spoken in contemporary Cuba as well as that spoken by Cuban immigrants to the United States. The Cuban Spanish dialect has intrinsic characteristics common to other Caribbean Spanish dialects, including Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish, but differs from these and other Caribbean varieties in many respects, crucially in its intonation and lexicon. Furthermore, Cuban Spanish has a high linguistic prestige in the US compared to other Spanish dialects for various socioeconomic, educational, historical, and political reasons. Thus Cuban Spanish spoken in the US is worth examining in terms of language contact and change, intergenerational language maintenance and transmission, and heritage language acquisition, among other issues.

Contents:

Phonological and phonetic variation

Miami-Cuban vowels / Brandon M.A. Rogers & Scott M. Alvord

The phonetic output of word-internal, post-nuclear / l/ and /?/ Weakening in Havana Cuban Spanish / Kristin Carlson

Code-switching in Miami Cuban Spanish : a preliminary study of suprasegmental effects / Ann M. Aly

Morphosyntactic variation

Continuity and change in Spanish among Cubans in New York : a study of subject placement with finite verbs / Daniel Erker, Eduardo Ho-Fernández, Ricardo Otheguy & Naomi Shin

The variation of subject pronouns over time in Cuban Spanish / Gabriela G. Alfaraz

Cuban Spanish : is it a null subject parameter dialect? / Luis A. Ortiz-López, Ashlee Dauphinais & Hector Aponte Alequín

Recomplementation as an unexplored locus of dialectal variation : the status of reduplicative que in Cuban Spanish / Joshua Frank & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

The sociolinguistic profile of ser and estar in Cuban Spanish : an analysis of oral speech / Manuel Díaz-Campos, Iraida Galarza & Gibran Delgado-Díaz

Lexical variation

The social diffusion of English-based lexical innovations in Miami Cuban Spanish / Andrew Lynch

Cuban Spanish versus peninsular Spanish : a quantitative lexical approach / Pascual Cantos-Gómez

Lexical influences and perceptions of Cuban Spanish in Miami / Antoni Fernández Parera

Heritage language acquisition

Pronominal subject expression with inanimate reference in heritage speakers of Cuban Spanish / Alejandro Cuza & Jose Camacho

Dative experiencer predicates in child heritage speakers of Cuban-Spanish / Diego Pascual y Cabo & Inmaculada Gómez-Soler

Examining code-switching performance theories : copula choice in Spanish among Cuban heritage speakers

Ana de Prada Perez & Andrea Hernández.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626165113

1626165114

OCLC:

972640309