Dialects from Tropical Islands

<p><em>Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States</em> provides a comprehensive account of current research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>Table of Contents</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>List of Contributors</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-Rivera</p><p>Section 1. Phonetics and Phonology</p><p>Rhotic Realizations of the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto Rico</p><p>Alba Arias</p><p>Differences in the Use of /l/ and /r/ in Two Communities of Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers in the United States</p><p>Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia</p><p>Laterals in Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/</p><p>Brandon M. A. Rogers & Scott M. Alvord</p><p>Se comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: Observations on Coda Sibilant Elision, Retention, and Insertion in Popular Dominican(-American) Spanish </p><p>Almeida Jacqueline Toribio & Aris Moreno Clemons</p><p>The Sociolinguistic Distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, Michigan</p><p>Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez</p><p>Section 2. Morphology and Syntax</p><p>Explaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York City</p><p>Carolina Barrera-Tobón & Rocío Raña Risso</p><p>The Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage Speakers</p><p>Ana de Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez Soler</p><p>Section 3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives</p><p>Evidence of Creolized English Grammar in the Spanish of Dominicans on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands</p><p>Daniel S. D’Arpa</p><p>Puerto Rican Evaluations of Varieties of Spanish</p><p>Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender</p><p>Aquí no se cogen las guaguas: Language and Puerto Rican Identity in San Diego</p><p>Ana Celia Zentella</p><p>Caribbean Spanish Influenced by African-American English: U.S. Afro-Spanish Language and the New U.S. Caribeño Identity</p><p>Teresa Satterfield & José R. Benkí, Jr.</p><p>Index</p>