Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Given increasing interest in Cuban Spanish among graduate students and faculty, this volume is a timely and highly relevant contribution to Hispanic linguistics and Cuban Spanish dialectology in particular.

Alejandro Cuza is full professor of Spanish and linguistics at Purdue University. His primary areas of research include second and heritage language acquisition, child bilingual development, Spanish morphosyntax and semantics, bilingualism/multilingualism, Cuban Spanish.

"In this clear and well-organized treatise, students interested in Cuban Spanish in the United States will find a wealth of information yielded by rigorous research in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, lexicology, and acquisition."

Illustrations Foreword Robert Hammond

Acknowledgments

Introduction Alejandro Cuza

Part I: Phonological and Phonetic Variation

1. Miami Cuban Vowels Brandon M. A. Rogers and Scott M. Alvord

2. The Phonetic Output of Word-Internal, Post-nuclear /l/ and // Weakening in Havana Cuban SpanishKristin Carlson

3. Code-Switching in Miami Cuban Spanish: A Preliminary Study of Suprasegmental EffectsAnn M. Aly

Part II: Morphosyntactic Variation

4. Continuity and Change in Spanish among Cubans in New York: A Study of Subject Placement with Finite VerbsDaniel Erker, Eduardo Ho-Fernández, Ricardo Otheguy, and Naomi Shin

5. The Variation of Subject Pronouns over Time in Cuban SpanishGabriela G. Alfaraz

6. Cuban Spanish: Is it a Null Subject Parameter Dialect?Luis A. Ortiz-López, Ashlee Dauphinais, and Héctor Aponte Alequín

7. Recomplementation as an Unexplored Locus of Dialectal Variation: The Status of Reduplicative Que in Cuban SpanishJoshua Frank and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

8. The Sociolinguistic Profile of Ser and Estar in Cuban Spanish: An Analysis of Oral SpeechManuel Díaz-Campos, Iraida Galarza, and Gibran Delgado-Díaz

Part III: Lexical Variation

9. The Social Diffusion of English-Based Lexical Innovations in Miami Cuban Spanish Andrew Lynch

10. Cuban Spanish versus Peninsular Spanish: A Quantitative Lexical ApproachPascual Cantos-Gómez

11. Lexical Influences and Perceptions of Cuban Spanish in MiamiAntoni Fernández Parera

Part IV: Heritage Language Acquisition

12. Pronominal Subject Expression with Inanimate Reference in Heritage Speakers of Cuban SpanishAlejandro Cuza and José Camacho

13. Dative Experiencer Predicates in Child Heritage Speakers of Cuban SpanishDiego Pascual y Cabo and Inmaculada Gómez-Soler

14. Examining Code-Switching Performance Theories: Copula Choice in Spanish among Cuban Heritage SpeakersAna de Prada Pérez and Andrea Hernández

List of ContributorsIndex