This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as various methodological approaches, such as the collection of naturalistic oral and written data, the use of reading comprehension tasks, the elicitation of acceptability judgments, and computational methods. The volume surpasses the limits of different fields in order to enable a rich characterization of the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-pragmatic factors that affect codeswitching, therefore, leading interested students, professors, and researchers to a better understanding of the regularities governing Spanish-English codeswitches, the representation and processing of codeswitches in the bilingual brain, the interaction between bilinguals’ languages and their mutual influence during linguistic expression.

Margaret Deuchar, University of Cambridge:
This volume is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary update on research involving the language pair which has given rise to some of the most influential and ground-breaking research on codeswitching. Just as work on Spanish-English codeswitching has in the past provided the model for research on most other language pairs, this state of the art collection will no doubt have an important impact on future developments in codeswitching research in general. Bringing together the work of leading scholars adopting diverse perspectives and drawing on a wide range of data from different geographical areas, it will thus be essential reading for codeswitching researchers and students from all disciplinary backgrounds.