ABSTRACT
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
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
Caribbean Spanish dialects in the United States: theoretical, empirical, and sociolinguistic perspectives
section Section 1|106 pages
Phonetics and phonology
chapter 4|17 pages
Se comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos
Observations on coda sibilant elision, retention, and insertion in popular Dominican(-American) Spanish
section Section 2|40 pages
Morphology and syntax
section Section 3|69 pages
Sociolinguistic perspectives
chapter 11|19 pages
Caribbean Spanish influenced by African American English
US Afro-Spanish language and the new US Caribeño identity
