Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish / / Brandon Baird, Osmer Balam, and M. Carmen Parafita Couto.

Covering 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, corpu...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series ; Volume 39
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 39.
Physical Description:1 online resource (375 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the linguistic analysis of Central American Spanish in monolingual and bi/multilingual contexts / Brandon Baird, Osmer Balam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
  • Rhotic variation in northern Belize : beyond tap-trill contrast maintenance / Trevor Bero
  • Phonological contrast maintenance and language contact : an examination of the Spanish rhotic system in a bilingual Guatemalan speech community / Sean McKinnon
  • Variation of absolute-final /s/ in Tegucigalpa Spanish / Julio Ventura and Brandon Baird
  • Social evaluations of onset /s/ lenition in Salvadoran Spanish / Franny D. Brogan, Lia Slotten and Juan Manuel Menjívar
  • An initial ToBI analysis of Costa Rican Spanish intonation / Eva Patricia Velásquez Upegui
  • Two contact induced grammatical changes in Spanish in contact with Tz'utujil in Guatemala / Ana Isabel García Tesoro
  • Big data and small dialects : transitive andar in Central American Spanish / Shannon P. Rodríguez and Chad Howe
  • Variable number marking in Mosquito Coast Spanish / Madeline Critchfield
  • The historical evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish / Munia Cabal-Jiménez
  • Rates and constraints of present perfect and preterit in Costa Rican Spanish : a variationist approach / Javier Rivas and Érick García Pineda
  • Address pronouns in Panamanian Spanish : a historical overview / Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco
  • Corner-store service encounters in Nicaraguan Spanish in a rural setting / Jeff Michno, Evan Colby Myers and Will Przedpelski
  • Central American Spanish : an upward trajectory / John M. Lipski.