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Book SynopsisCovering all seven countries on the isthmus, this volume presents the first collection of original linguistic studies on Central American Spanish varieties, which have long been neglected in Hispanic Linguistics. The analyses in this collection span across disciplines such as sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, historical linguistics, and pragmatics. This volume bridges the gap between international and Central American scholars, as it highlights the work that has already been done by Central American scholars but is relatively unknown to scholars outside of the region. It also introduces readers to more recent work that sheds new light on Central American Spanish varieties, from both urban and rural settings as well as in bilingual communities where Spanish is in contact with indigenous languages.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 On the Linguistic Analysis of Central American Spanish in Monolingual and Bi/Multilingual Contexts Brandon Baird, Osmer Balam, and M. Carmen Parafita Couto 2 Rhotic Variation in Northern Belize: Beyond Tap-Trill Contrast Maintenance Trevor Bero 3 Phonological Contrast Maintenance and Language Contact An Examination of the Spanish Rhotic System in a Bilingual Guatemalan Speech Community Sean McKinnon 4 Variation of Absolute-Final /s/ in Tegucigalpa Spanish Julio Ventura and Brandon Baird 5 Social Evaluations of Onset /s/ Lenition in Salvadoran Spanish Franny D. Brogan, Lia Slotten, and Juan Manuel Menjívar 6 An Initial ToBI Analysis of Costa Rican Spanish Intonation Eva Patricia Velásquez Upegui 7 Two Contact Induced Grammatical Changes in Spanish in Contact with Tz’utujil in Guatemala Ana Isabel García Tesoro 8 Big Data and Small Dialects: Transitive andar in Central American Spanish Shannon P. Rodríguez and Chad Howe 9 Variable Number Marking in Mosquito Coast Spanish Madeline Critchfield 10 The Historical Evolution of Usted in Costa Rican Spanish Munia Cabal-Jiménez 11 Rates and Constraints of Present Perfect and Preterit in Costa Rican Spanish: A Variationist Approach Javier Rivas and Érick García Pineda 12 Address Pronouns in Panamanian Spanish A Historical Overview Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco 13 Corner-Store Service Encounters in Nicaraguan Spanish in a Rural Setting Jeff Michno, Evan Colby Myers and Will Przedpelski 14 Central American Spanish: Then, Now, and Onward John M. Lipski Index
