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Covering all seven countries on the isthmus, this volume presents the first collection of original linguistic studies on Central American Spanish varieties, which have long been neglected in Hispanic Linguistics. The analyses in this collection span across disciplines such as sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, historical linguistics, and pragmatics. This volume bridges the gap between international and Central American scholars, as it highlights the work that has already been done by Central American scholars but is relatively unknown to scholars outside of the region. It also introduces readers to more recent work that sheds new light on Central American Spanish varieties, from both urban and rural settings as well as in bilingual communities where Spanish is in contact with indigenous languages.

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Brandon Baird, Ph.D. (2014), University of Texas, Austin, is associate professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies and Linguistics at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). His research focuses on bilingual phonetics and phonology, Guatemalan Spanish, and Mayan languages. Osmer Balam, Ph.D. (2016), University of Florida, is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster (Ohio, USA). His research focuses on Belizean Spanish, Spanish in the U.S., code-switching, and bilingual morphosyntax. M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Ph.D. (2005), University of Kansas, is María Zambrano senior researcher at the University of Vigo (Spain) and university lecturer (Latin American Studies, Linguistics) at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on the impact of multilingualism and language contact on language structure, with emphasis on multilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world.

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