2. Invitation to the Dance: Spanish in the El Paso Underworld

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Table of Contents ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Invitation to the Dance: Spanish in the El Paso Underworld 7
6. 3. Spanish-English Bilingualism in San Antonio, Texas 18
7. 4. Comparison of Voiceless Stops in the English and Spanish of Bilingual Natives of Fort Worth-Dallas 42
8. 5. Dialect Leveling in Non-English Speech of Southwest Louisiana 50
9. 6. The Phonology, Morphology, and Lexicon of a German Text from Fredericksburg, Texas 63
10. 7. An Analysis of Selected German Dialects of North Texas and Oklahoma 105
11. 8. Unusual German Lexical Items from the Lee-Fayette County Area of Texas 142
12. 9. The West Slavic Languages in Texas with Special Regard to Sorbian in Serbin, Lee County 151
13. 10. A Survey of the West Slavic Immigrant Languages in Texas 163
14. 11. Some Observations on Norwegian in Bosque County, Texas 170
15. 12. Code-Switching and Modes of Speaking 179
16. Index 211
17. Backmatter 228