Spanish in Chicago (OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES)

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Spanish in Chicago
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1. Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago: Contact and Loss
	1.1. Introduction
	1.2. Visualizations of Contact and Loss
	1.3. Latino Chicago
	1.4. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago: Complex Relationships
	1.5. Prior Studies of Spanish in Chicago
	1.6. Summary
2.	 The Chicago Spanish (CHISPA) Corpus
	2.1. Introduction
	2.2. Generational Groups
	2.3. Regional Origins
	2.4. Spanish Proficiency
	2.5. Age, Gender, Socioeconomic Status
	2.6. Interview Procedures
	2.7. Summary
3.	 Lexical Familiarity
	3.1. Introduction
	3.2. Lexical Outcomes of Dialect Contact
	3.3. Methodology
	3.4. Homeland Speakers
	3.5. Chicago Mexicans and Puerto Ricans
		3.5.1. Outgroup Lexical Familiarity Scores
		3.5.2. Ingroup Lexical Familiarity Scores
		3.5.3. Total Lexical Familiarity Scores
	3.6. Chicago Mexicans
	3.7. Scores on Individual Items
	3.8. Proficiency
	3.9. Summary and Conclusions
4. Discourse Markers
	4.1. Introduction
	4.2. Discourse Markers in Bilingual Communities
	4.3. Methodology
	4.4. Overall Frequency of So and Entonces
	4.5. Regional Origin and Generation
	4.6. Proficiency
	4.7. Functions
	4.8. Summary and Conclusions
5. Codeswitching
	5.1. Introduction
	5.2. Spanish-​English Codeswitching in the U.S.
	5.3. Methodology
	5.4. Overall Quantity of English
	5.5. Number of Codeswitches
	5.6. Types of Codeswitches
	5.7. Proficiency versus Generation
	5.8. Summary and Conclusions
6. Subjunctive
	6.1. Introduction
	6.2. The Subjunctive in U.S. Spanish
	6.3. Methodology
	6.4. Regional Origin
	6.5. Generation
	6.6. Obligatory Contexts
	6.7. Variable Contexts
	6.8. Proficiency
		6.8.1. Obligatory Contexts by Proficiency Level
		6.8.2. Variable Contexts by Proficiency Level
	6.9. Proficiency versus Generation
	6.10. Summary and Conclusions
7. Phonology
	7.1. Introduction
	7.2. Phonological Accommodation in Situations of Spanish Dialect Contact
	7.3. Methodology
	7.4. Regional Origin
	7.5. Interlocutor Variety
	7.6. Connections between /​s/​ and /​r̄/​
	7.7. Qualitative Explorations of Puerto Rican Variation
	7.8. Summary and Conclusions
8. Factors Underlying Spanish Development
	8.1. Introduction
	8.2. Intergenerational Spanish Transmission and Loss in the U.S.
	8.3. Proficiency Inliers
		8.3.1. Attitudes about Spanish
		8.3.2. Language Use in the Home and in Social Networks
		8.3.3. Order of Acquisition
		8.3.4. Bilingual Education
		8.3.5. Travel to Mexico or Puerto Rico
	8.4. Proficiency Outliers
		8.4.1. High-​Proficiency Outliers (n =​ 23)
		8.4.2. Low-​Proficiency Outliers (n =​ 8)
	8.5. Summary and Conclusions
9. Conclusions
	9.1. Introduction
	9.2. Spanish Proficiency: How to Measure It and Ways to Support It
	9.3. Summary of Five Linguistic Features
	9.4. Proficiency Preferable to Generation When Examining Changes in U.S. Spanish
	9.5. Areas for Future Research
References
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