Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions

Section 1: Perceptions of Regional Language Variation and Change 1. "No me molesta que se coman las /s/: A Production and Attitude Analysis of Coda /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish" 2. The Perception of Coda Liquids in Dominican Spanish: Geographic and Social Variation 3. Dialectal Contact in the Caribbean: Dominican Perceptions of the Domi-Rican Continuum 4. Sociophonetic Perceptions in Andalusian Spanish: The Case of Sibilants in Seville, Jerez, and Cordoba 5. Differing Effects of Speaker and Listener Characteristics on the Social Perception of Two Traditional Andalusian Features Undergoing Dialect Levelling Section 2: Perceptions of Language and Migrant Identities 6. Perceptions of Ethnic Difference in a Transnational Context: A Case Study from the batey Alejandro Bass (Dominican Republic) 7. Mexicans and Mexican Americans' Perceptions of Themselves and Each Other: Attitudes Toward Language and Community 8. The Effects of Immigration and Transnationalism on Language Regard Section 3: Perceptions Related to Language Contact Phenomena 9. English L2 Learners' Attitudes towards Spanish, English, and Spanish-English Codeswitching in Puerto Rico 10. Sociophonetic Perception towards English Loan Words in Puerto Rican Spanish 11. "Para mi, es indigena con traje tipico": Apocope as an Indexical Marker of Indigeneity in Guatemalan Spanish