The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past
half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an …

This chapter adopts a corpus-based approach to examine the structure of Spanish in the US.
Specifically, it discusses four morphosyntactic variables (subject pronoun expression, the …

This chapter provides an overview of the relatively young history of research on the
phonological system of heritage Spanish that has been conducted within a range of US …

La investigación del sistema fonético y fonológico de los hablantes de herencia del español
ha crecido durante la última década. Durante los últimos cinco años en particular, se ha …

The southeastern United States has experienced rapid growth in the Hispanic population in
recent decades, giving rise to a newly forming bilingual community. The present study builds …

Phonology, as one of the traditional subdisciplines of modern linguistics, has been at the
forefront of linguistic research since the beginning of the 20th century. The phonology of …

The present investigation aims to facilitate our understanding of Spanish in the Southeastern
United States–a region that despite its rapid growth over the last two decades, has received …

This study examines measures of prosodic timing (ie, segment-to-segment durational
variability) in Yagua and Spanish spoken in Amazonian Peru. We performed an acoustic …

In this study two techniques were used to analyze the linguistic rhythm of Mexican
Spanish/English bilinguals in Los Angeles (California):(i)-nPVI, consisting of measurements …

This chapter first describes heritage speakers in general, providing information about how
they acquired the Spanish language and how this exposure might help shape their …