1st Edition
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish
PART I. Spain
Ch. 1 An overview of the sibilant merger and its development in Spanish
Eva Núñez Méndez
Ch. 2 Sibilants in Western Andalusian Spanish: the lack of a Sevillian norm in the
Jerezano speech community
Jannis Harjus
Ch. 3 Intervocalic /s/-voicing in Spanish in contact with Catalan
Justin Davidson
PART II. United States
Ch. 4 Describing and analyzing variability in Spanish /s/: a case study of Caribbeans in Boston
and New York City
Daniel Gerard Erker and Madeline Reffel
Ch. 5 Variable realization of final /s/ in Miami Cuban Spanish: the reversal of diachronic
language change
Andrew Lynch and Antoni Fernández Parera
Ch. 6 Variable /s/-voicing by heritage Spanish speakers in the United States
Amanda Boomershine and Jon Stevens
PART III. Central and South America
Ch. 7 /s/-weakening in Nicaragua
Whitney Chappell
Ch. 8 A sociophonetic approach to /s/-realization in the Colombian Spanish of Barranquilla
Richard File-Muriel Earl Brown and Michael Gradoville
Ch. 9 /s/-voicing in Ecuadorian Spanish
John Lipski
Ch. 10 Syllable-final /s/-variation in an Uruguayan Spanish-Portuguese contact variety
Mark Waltermire
Ch. 11 Variable voicing in Argentine Spanish /ʒ/
Michael Gradoville
Biography
Eva Núñez is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Portland State University, USA.
