Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States [Hardcover]

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.

Table of Contents

Wilfredo Valent?n-M?rquez & Melvin Gonz?lez-Rivera

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 Valent?n-M?rquez