Full Description
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the US, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored, most crucially its ramifications to areas such as language contact and change. New analyses are desperately called for given the increasing interest in this area of research. The present volume covers these existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of Cuban Spanish as a heritage language. The book is highly valuable to students and scholars interested in Hispanic linguistics and Cuban Spanish dialectology.
Contents
Foreword Robert Hammond Introduction Alejandro Cuza Part I: Phonological and Phonetic Variation1. Miami Cuban Vowels Brandon M. A. Rogers and Scott M. Alvord 2. The Phonetic Output of Word-Internal, Post-nuclear /l/ and / / Weakening in Havana Cuban SpanishKristin Carlson3. Code-Switching in Miami Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary Study of Suprasegmental EffectsAnn M. Aly Part II: Morphosyntactic Variation 4. Continuity and Change in Spanish among Cubans in New York: A Study of Subject Placement with Finite VerbsDaniel Erker, Eduardo Ho-Fernandez, Ricardo Otheguy, and Naomi Shin 5. The Variation of Subject Pronouns over Time in Cuban SpanishGabriela G. Alfaraz6. Cuban Spanish: Is it a Null Subject Parameter Dialect?Luis A. Ortiz-Lopez, Ashlee Dauphinais, and Hector Aponte Alequin 7. Recomplementation as an Unexplored Locus of Dialectal Variation: The Status of Reduplicative Que in Cuban SpanishJoshua Frank and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio 8. The Sociolinguistic Profile of Ser and Estar in Cuban Spanish: An Analysis of Oral SpeechManuel Diaz-Campos, Iraida Galarza, and Gibran Delgado-Diaz Part III: Lexical Variation 9. The Social Diffusion of English-Based Lexical Innovations in Miami Cuban Spanish Andrew Lynch 10. Cuban Spanish versus Peninsular Spanish: A Quantitative Lexical ApproachPascual Cantos-Gomez 11. Lexical Influences and Perceptions of Cuban Spanish in MiamiAntoni Fernandez Parera Part IV: Heritage Language Acquisition 12. Pronominal Subject Expression with Inanimate Reference in Heritage Speakers of Cuban SpanishAlejandro Cuza and Jose Camacho 13. Dative Experiencer Predicates in Child Heritage Speakers of Cuban SpanishDiego Pascual y Cabo and Inmaculada Gomez-Soler 14. Examining Code-Switching Performance Theories: Copula Choice in Spanish among Cuban Heritage SpeakersAna de Prada Perez and Andrea Hernandez List of ContributorsIndex
