1st Edition
Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions
Introduction: Linguistic perceptions among Spanish-speakers: on the pathway to a deeper understanding
Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López and Eva-Maria Suárez Büdenbender
Section I: Perceptions of Regional Language Variation and Change
Chapter 1: "No me molesta que se coman las /s/: A production and attitude analysis of coda /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish"
Gibran Delgado-Díaz, Iraida Galarza, and Manuel Díaz-Campos
Chapter 2: The perception of coda liquids in Dominican Spanish: Geographic and social variation
Erik Willis and Manuel Díaz-Campos
Chapter 3: Dialectal contact in the Caribbean: Dominican Perceptions of the Domi-Rican continuum
Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López, Eva-Maria Suárez Büdenbender, and Cristina Martínez-Pedraza
Chapter 4: Sociophonetic perceptions in Andalusian Spanish: The case of sibilants in Seville, Jerez, and Cordoba
Jannis Harjus
Chapter 5: Differing effects of speaker and listener characteristics on the social perception of two traditional Andalusian features undergoing dialect levelling
Brendan Regan
Section II: Perceptions of Language and Migrant Identities
Chapter 6: Perceptions of ethnic difference in a transnational context: A case study from the batey Alejandro Bass (Dominican Republic)
Silke Jansen
Chapter 7: Mexicans and Mexican Americans’ perceptions of themselves and each other: Attitudes toward language and community
Whitney Chappell
Chapter 8: The effects of immigration and transnationalism on language regard
Gabriela Alfaraz
Section III: Perceptions Related to Language Contact Phenomena
Chapter 9: English L2 learners’ attitudes towards Spanish, English, and Spanish-English codeswitching in Puerto Rico
Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez, Elif Fidan Acar, and Emmanuel Pantoja Morán
Chapter 10: Sociophonetic perception towards English loan words in Puerto Rican Spanish
Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López and Hernán Rosario
Chapter 11: "Para mí, es indígena con traje típico": Apocope as an indexical marker of indigeneity in Guatemalan Spanish
Brandon O. Baird
Biography
Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López is Professor at Recinto de Río Piedras, University of Puerto Rico, USA.
Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender is Associate Professor at Shepherd University, USA.
