Table of contents
Introduction1
Part I.Language acquisition
The development of intonation in L2 Spanish: A perceptual study11
Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of
Spanish33
The licensing of wh-in-situ questions: Intonational evidence from Spanish53
What suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language
courses?75
Part II.Theoretical and descriptive approaches
The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in Romance97
The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift: Contextually determined variation in Rioplatense,
Iberian, and Mexican Altiplano Spanish119
The aspectual structure of the adjective. Spanish seric
and estar137
Mood in future-framed adverbials: Pragmatic alternations in Rioplatense
Spanish161
Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and
Peninsular Spanish183
Part III.Language contact and variation
Demystifying Salvadoran [sθ]: Evidence for /s/ lenition207
Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation: Analysis and implications229
Subject-predicate code-switching: Testing the need of a matrix language through embedding249
The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of
fashion and beauty265
Future of probability in Spanish as a heritage language285
Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the
Southeast303
Casting light on the Spanish creole debate: A legal perspective327
Index343
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