"This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a variety of recent theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies and make important contributions to our current understanding of language acquisition, theoretical and descriptive linguistics, and language contact. This collection of articles is a testimony to the breadth and degree of specialization of the scholarly interest in the field. The selection of refereed chapters included in this volume were originally presented at the 20th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) hosted at Georgetown University, 2016. The book should be read with interest by scholars and graduate students hoping to gain insight into the issues currently debated in Hispanic Linguistics"--.

• Hispanic Linguistics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • 1. Language acquisition
  • 2. Theoretical and descriptive approaches
  • 3. Language contact and variation
  • References
• The development of intonation in L2 Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology
    • 2.1 Participants
    • 2.2 Materials
    • 2.3 Procedure
    • 2.4 Analysis
    • 2.5 Hypotheses
  • 3. Results
    • 3.1 Perception accuracy
    • 3.2 Reaction times
    • 3.3 Instructor type
    • 3.4 D-prime analysis
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background literature
    • 2.1 Instructional considerations for Spanish subjunctive development
    • 2.2 L2 knowledge construction and meaningful practice
    • 2.3 Employing tutorial CALL to promote subjunctive proceduralization
  • 3. Studying subjunctive learning in tutorial CALL
  • 4. Research questions
  • 5. Method
    • 5.1 Participants
    • 5.2 Treatment
    • 5.3 Instructional materials
    • 5.4 Tracking technologies
  • 6. Analysis
  • 7. Results
  • 8. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
• The licensing of wh-in-situ questions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Wh-in-situ questions
    • 2.1 Wh-in-situ in French
    • 2.2 Wh-in-situ in Spanish
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Final contours and Global Tonal Range
    • 4.2 Final contours and elevated pitch
    • 4.3 The effect of language dominance
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Spanish derivational morphology
    • 2.2 L2 derivational morphology instruction
    • 2.3 Suffixes characteristics
    • 2.4 Research questions
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 CEDEL2 corpus (L2 learners and native speakers)
    • 3.2 Textbook corpus
    • 3.3 Selection and analysis of the suffixes in the corpora
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Distribution of suffixes across corpora
    • 4.2 Lexical innovations in CEDEL2
    • 4.3 Characteristics influencing suffixal learning
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Textbooks corpus
• The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in Romance
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Observations on Spanish parecer
    • 2.1 Syntactic properties of Spanish parecer
    • 2.2 Previous studies on parecer
  • 3. Spanish parecer and restructuring
    • 3.1 Restructuring in Romance syntax
    • 3.2 Cinque’s restructuring approach
    • 3.3 Restructuring in contexts featuring Spanish parecer
    • 3.4 Parecer and experiencer arguments
  • 4. Cinque’s functional hierarchy and R-parecer
    • 4.1 Ordering of functional heads in Cinque’s hierarchy
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Morphosemantic considerations of the Progressive-to-Imperfective shift
    • 2.1 A synchronic characterization of the Progressive and Imperfective meanings
    • 2.2 The grammaticalization path from prog to impf
  • 3. The Spanish Progressive and Imperfective markers
  • 4. An experimental study in three dialects of Spanish
    • 4.1 Methods
    • 4.1.1 Materials
    • 4.2 Procedure
    • 4.3 Subjects
    • 4.4 Predictions
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Discussion and concluding remarks
  • References
• The aspectual structure of the adjective
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gradability-based approaches
    • 2.1 Merits and problems for the gradability account
  • 3. Analysis
    • 3.1 The technical implementation
  • 4. Temporal evidence
    • 4.1 The Progressive and
    • 4.2 Lifetime effects
  • 5. Beyond adjectives: Passives and locatives
    • 5.1 Stative and eventive passives
    • 5.2 Ser + Eventive subjects in locatives
  • 6. The evidential reading of estar
  • 7. Back to the gradability account
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
• Mood in future-framed adverbials
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Mood in Spanish
    • 2.2 Future-framed adverbial clauses
    • 2.3 Epistemic commitment
  • 3. Independent variables
  • 4. Research question and hypothesis
  • 5. Methods
  • 6. Results
  • 7. Discussion
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Appendix
• Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Information structure and the different types of focus
    • 1.2 The realization of focus in English and in Spanish
  • 2. Present study
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Experimental materials
    • 3.2 Procedures
    • 3.3 Participants
    • 3.4 Coding and analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Syntactic strategies
    • 4.2 Prosodic marking in-situ
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Demystifying Salvadoran [sθ]
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Salvadoran /s/
  • 3. An effort-based approach to consonant lenition
  • 4. Methodology
    • 4.1 Hypotheses
    • 4.2 Data collection and analysis
  • 5. Acoustic evidence for lenition
    • 5.1 Duration analysis
    • 5.2 COG analysis
  • 6. Evidence from linguistic environment
    • 6.1 Prosodic position
    • 6.2 Preceding segment
    • 6.3 Following segment
    • 6.4 Results
  • 7. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
• Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background on intonational phonology: Phrase boundaries and pitch accents in Spanish
  • 3. Data collection methodology and procedure for analysis
  • 4. Phonological account
    • 4.1 Prenuclear pitch accents
    • 4.2 Nuclear configurations
    • 4.2.1 Non-terminal ips
    • 4.2.2 IP-nuclear configurations
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Subject-predicate code-switching
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Matrix Language Frame Model
    • 2.2 Minimalist approach to code-switching
    • 2.3 Pronouns in code-switching
  • 3. Methods
    • 3.1 Participants
    • 3.2 Procedure
    • 3.3 Stimuli
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Loanwords
    • 2.2 Technology loanwords
    • 2.3 Loanwords in fashion and beauty
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
    • 5.1 Loanword etymology
    • 5.2 Morphological integration
    • 5.3 Metalinguistic commentary
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
    • Magazines/blogs & databases consulted
• Futurity and probability in Spanish as a heritage language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Future of probability
  • 3. Literature review
  • 4. Present study
  • 5. Methodology
    • 5.1 Participants
    • 5.2 Instruments
    • 5.2.1 Experimental task 1: Truth Value Judgment Task
    • 5.2.2 Experimental task 2: Elicited Production Task
  • 6. Results
    • 6.1 Truth Value Judgment Task
    • 6.2 Elicited Production Task
  • 7. Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overall methodology
    • 2.1 Participants
    • 2.2 Data collection
    • 2.3 Aligner
  • 3. Lenition of /bdg/
    • 3.1 Previous research
    • 3.2 Methodology
    • 3.3 Results
  • 4. The vowel system
    • 4.1 Previous research
    • 4.2 Methodology
    • 4.3 Results
  • 5. Rhythm
    • 5.1 Previous research
    • 5.2 Methodology
    • 5.3 Results
  • 6. Bilingual discourse markers
    • 6.1 Previous research
    • 6.2 Methodology
    • 6.3 Results
  • 7. Discussion: The “swarm”
  • 8. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix A Participant demographic information
• Casting light on the Spanish creole debate
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Key aspects of the Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis
  • 3. Aspects of Spanish slave law
  • 4. Law in books vs. law in action
    • 4.1 Some comments on black slavery in Spanish America
    • 4.2 An analysis of legal praxis in Spanish America
    • 4.3 Focus on colonial Chocóocus on colonial Chocó
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Index