Dialects from Tropical Islands

Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University.Melvin González-Rivera is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroductionWilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-RiveraSection 1. Phonetics and PhonologyRhotic Realizations of the Puerto Rican Community in Western Massachusetts and Puerto RicoAlba AriasDifferences in the Use of /l/ and /r/ in Two Communities of Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers in the United StatesMichelle F. Ramos PelliciaLaterals in Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/Brandon M. A. Rogers & Scott M. AlvordSe comen la [s] pero a veces son muy fisnos: Observations on Coda Sibilant Elision, Retention, and Insertion in Popular Dominican(-American) Spanish Almeida Jacqueline Toribio & Aris Moreno ClemonsThe Sociolinguistic Distribution of Puerto Rican Spanish /r/ in Grand Rapids, MichiganWilfredo Valentín-MárquezSection 2. Morphology and SyntaxExplaining Pronominal Subject Placement Variation across Two Generations of Caribbean Spanish Speakers in New York CityCarolina Barrera-Tobón & Rocío Raña RissoThe Effect of Person on the Subject Expression of Spanish Heritage SpeakersAna de Prada Pérez & Inmaculada Gómez SolerSection 3. Sociolinguistic PerspectivesEvidence of Creolized English Grammar in the Spanish of Dominicans on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin IslandsDaniel S. D’ArpaPuerto Rican Evaluations of Varieties of SpanishEva-María Suárez BüdenbenderAquí no se cogen las guaguas: Language and Puerto Rican Identity in San DiegoAna Celia ZentellaCaribbean Spanish Influenced by African-American English: U.S. Afro-Spanish Language and the New U.S. Caribeño IdentityTeresa Satterfield & José R. Benkí, Jr.Index