Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego.

It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish.

• Preface ; 1. Continuity, language contact, and dialectal leveling in Spanish in NYC ; 2. Interviews and transcripts ; 3. The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus ; 4. The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities ; 5. Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups ; 6. Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York ; 7. A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling ; 8. Internal evidence for continuity and contact ; 9. Internal evidence for continuity and leveling ; 10. The grammar of bilinguals in New York ; Concluding remarks Spanish in New York: Aqui se habla espanol ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1 - Questionnaire ; Appendix 2 - Coding Manual

Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego.

It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish.

• Preface ; 1. Continuity, language contact, and dialectal leveling in Spanish in NYC ; 2. Interviews and transcripts ; 3. The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus ; 4. The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities ; 5. Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups ; 6. Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York ; 7. A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling ; 8. Internal evidence for continuity and contact ; 9. Internal evidence for continuity and leveling ; 10. The grammar of bilinguals in New York ; Concluding remarks Spanish in New York: Aqui se habla espanol ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1 - Questionnaire ; Appendix 2 - Coding Manual

Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego.

It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish.

• Preface ; 1. Continuity, language contact, and dialectal leveling in Spanish in NYC ; 2. Interviews and transcripts ; 3. The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus ; 4. The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities ; 5. Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups ; 6. Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York ; 7. A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling ; 8. Internal evidence for continuity and contact ; 9. Internal evidence for continuity and leveling ; 10. The grammar of bilinguals in New York ; Concluding remarks Spanish in New York: Aqui se habla espanol ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1 - Questionnaire ; Appendix 2 - Coding Manual