Spanish in the United States

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: A 1988 update -- Literacy stories: Features of unplanned oral discourse -- Language maintenance institutions of the Isleño dialect of Spanish -- Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish -- Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals -- Diversification and Pan-Latinity: Projections for the teaching of Spanish to bilinguals -- Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker -- Index