1st Edition

Dialects from Tropical Islands Caribbean Spanish in the United States

    236 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    236 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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



    Acknowledgments



    List of Contributors



    Introduction



    Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-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 Valentín-Márquez



    Section 2. 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



    Ana de Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez 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-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.



    Index

    Biography

    Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University.



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