Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I. Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics
6. Quantitative analysis in language variation and change 3
7. Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics 33
8. Part II. Bilingualism
9. Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish 91
10. On the tenacity of Andean Spanish 109
11. Spanish and Valencian in contact 135
12. Part III. Language Acquisition
13. Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression 157
14. The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad 177
15. Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish 197
16. Part IV. Phonological Variation
17. On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish 219
18. Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacán 241
19. Bilingualism and aspiration 261
20. Part V. Morpho-Syntactic Variation
21. Spanish and Portuguese parallels 285
22. The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay 305
23. A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals 323
24. Part VI. Lexical Variation
25. Social factors in semantic change 345
26. Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts 363
27. “Trabajar es en español, en ladino es lavorar” 381
28. Index 401