Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects.

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List of contributors Preface Introduction Part I. Varieties and variations of Spanish in the United States: 1. Our linguistic and social context Rosaura Sanchez 2. Current trends in the investigation of Cuban and Puerto Rican phonology T. D. Terrell 3. Influences of English on /b/ in Los Angeles Spanish Robert Phillips 4. Syntactic variation in verb phrases of motion in US-Mexican Spanish Maryellen Garcia 5. Subject expression and placement in Mexican-American Spanish Carmen Silva-Corvalan 6. Mexican-American calo and standard Mexican Spanish John T. Webb Part II. Aspects of Language Contact and Language Change: 7. Intergenerational language shift in an Albuquerque barrio Alan Hudson-Edwards and Garland D. Bills 8. Language mixing in Chicano Spanish Rogelio Reyes 9. Texas Spanish and lexical borrowing Nicholas Sobin 10. The social implications of intra-sentential code-switching Rodolfo Jacobson 11. Social interaction and code-switching patterns: a case study of Spanish/English alternation Guadalupe Valdes 12. 'Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en espanol': toward a typology of code-switching Shana Poplack 13. Constraints on language mixing: intrasentential code-switching and borrowing in Spanish/English Carol W. Pfaff Part III. Ethnographic Aspects of Language Use in Bilingual Communities: 14. El meeting: history, folk Spanish and ethnic nationalism in a Chicano student community Jose E. Limon 15. Sociolinguistic contours in the verbal art of Chicano children John H. McDowell 16. Code-switching and interactions among Puerto Rican children Ana Celia Zentella 17. The use of Spanish and English in a high school bilingual civics class Alexander Sapiens 18. Marble terminology in a bilingual South Texas community: a sociolinguistic perspective on language change Jose L. Galvan Index.