This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics,

The first part of the book presents a linguistic analysis of Latin American Spanish and places it in a broad historical context. The author examines the phonolo

The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss--in English and in Spanish--the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic att

This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a num