Table of Contents

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Varieties and variations of Spanish in the United States: 1. Our linguistic and social context Rosaura Sánchez; 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 García; 5. Subject expression and placement in Mexican-American Spanish Carmen Silva-Corvalán; 6. Mexican-American caló 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 Valdés; 12. 'Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en español': 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 José E. Limón; 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 José L. Galván; Index.

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This volume constitutes a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the Spanish spoken in the United States.