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vii Contents Introduction ix 1. The Importance of Spanish in the United States 1 2. Overview of Scholarship on Spanish in the United States 14 3. Spanish, English, or . . . Spanglish? 38 4. Mexican Spanish in the United States 75 5. Cuban Spanish in the United States 98 6. Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States 116 7. Dominican Spanish in the United States 132 8. Central American Spanish in the United States 142 9. Salvadoran Spanish in the United States 150 10. Nicaraguan Spanish in the United States 165 11. Guatemalan and Honduran Spanish in the United States 179 12. Traditional Varieties: New Mexico and Louisiana 191 13. Language Mixing and Code Switching 223 References 243 Index 289 This page intentionally left blank ...

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