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Tables | xi | |
Figures | xiii | |
Maps | xv | |
Tapes | xvii | |
Part 1 | Hispanic dialects | |
1 | What is a dialect? | 1 |
2 | A brief description of the Spanish language | 12 |
2.1 | The sounds of Spanish | 12 |
2.2 | The forms of Spanish | 20 |
2.3 | The structure of Spanish | 35 |
2.4 | The lexicon of Spanish | 46 |
3 | The contemporary languages of Spain | 54 |
3.1 | Castilian | 54 |
3.2 | Andalusian | 59 |
3.3 | Leonese | 61 |
3.4 | Aragonese | 63 |
3.5 | Portuguese and Galician | 65 |
3.6 | Catalan, Valencian, and Majorcan | 68 |
3.7 | Basque | 72 |
Part 2 | The spread of Spanish | |
4 | The Spanish that was brought to America | 77 |
5 | Spanish as an exported language | 84 |
6 | The first Spanish-Amerindian linguistic contact: The Tainos | 89 |
7 | Spanish reaches the mainland: The Aztecs and the Mayas | 96 |
8 | The Inca empire: The Quechuas | 110 |
9 | Chile: The Mapuche heritage | 124 |
10 | Indigenismos in Argentina, a different picture: Quechua, Pampero, Querandi, and Guarani | 130 |
11 | Paraguay: The triumph of an indigenous tongue: Guarani | 137 |
Part 3 | Contemporary Spanish dialects in the Americas | |
12 | General differences between Peninsular and Latin American Spanish | 145 |
13 | Mexico | 152 |
14 | The Andean countries | 176 |
15 | The Caribbean | 203 |
16 | Chile | 221 |
17 | The Rio Plata | 242 |
18 | Southwestern United States | 276 |
19 | A look toward the future of Spanish | 298 |
Appendices | ||
1. | Dialect questionnaires | 309 |
Questionnaire 1. | For investigation of Texas English | 309 |
Questionnaire 2. | For investigation of El Paso Spanish | 313 |
Questionnaire 3. | For investigation of generational differences in the speech of Ciudad Juarez | 316 |
Questionnaire 4. | For investigation of generational and socioeconomic differences in Temuco, Chile | 320 |
2. | Glossary of linguistic terms | 324 |
3. | Phonetic symbols for segmentals in Latin America | 328 |
Consonants | 328 | |
Vowels | 329 | |
4. | Word list for practice with Tape 1 | 330 |
5. | Tape transcriptions not included in text | 336 |
Tape 2 | ||
Selection b. | Quechua | 336 |
Selection c. | Guarani | 336 |
Selection d. | Cultivated Colombian Andean | 337 |
Selection e. | Cultivated Peruvian Andean | 338 |
Selection f. | Cultivated Formal Cuban | 338 |
Selection g. | Cultivated Informal Puerto Rican | 340 |
Selection i. | Rustic Puerto Rican | 340 |
Selection k. | Cultivated Uruguayan/Argentinian | 341 |
Selection m. | Teenage Mexican American Spanish | 343 |
6. | Mexican American lexical items with Spanish bases | 345 |
7. | Mexican American lexical items with English bases | 353 |
8. | Mexican American lexical items with Spanish and with English bases: A comparison | 358 |
References | 360 | |
Index | 369 |
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