This edited volume aims to provide a comprehensive collection of current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas. It features studies from four major areas relative to Cuban Spanish dialectology: phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Due to Cuba's relative isolation since the mid-20th century, there has been little empirical research on this Spanish dialect. This volume seeks to fill that gap in the literature, conceiving of Cuban Spanish as both the Spanish spoken in contemporary Cuba as well as that spoken by Cuban immigrants to the United States. The Cuban Spanish dialect has intrinsic characteristics common to other Caribbean Spanish dialects, including Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish, but differs from these and other Caribbean varieties in many respects, crucially in its intonation and lexicon. Furthermore, Cuban Spanish has a high linguistic prestige in the US compared to other Spanish dialects for various socioeconomic, educational, historical, and political reasons. Thus Cuban Spanish spoken in the US is worth examining in terms of language contact and change, intergenerational language maintenance and transmission, and heritage language acquisition, among other issues.

Part I.Phonological and phonetic variation. Miami-Cuban vowels / Brandon M.A. Rogers and Scott M. Alvord -- The phonetic output of word-internal, post-nuclear / l/ and /?/ Weakening in Havana Cuban Spanish / Kristin M. Carlson -- Code-switching in Miami Cuban Spanish : a preliminary study of suprasegmental effects / Ann M. Aly -- Part II. Morphosyntactic variation. Continuity and change in Spanish among Cubans in New York : a study of subject placement with finite verbs / Daniel Erker, Eduardo Ho-Fernández, Ricardo Otheguy, and Naomi Lapidus Shin -- The variation of subject pronouns over time in Cuban Spanish / Gabriela G. Alfaraz -- Cuban Spanish : is it a null subject parameter dialect? / Luis A. Ortiz-López, Ashlee Dauphinais, and Héctor Aponte Alequín -- Recomplementation as an unexplored locus of dialectal variation : the status of reduplicative que in Cuban Spanish / Joshua Frank and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio -- The sociolinguistic profile of ser and estar in Cuban Spanish : an analysis of oral speech / Manuel Díaz-Campos, Iraida Galarza, and Gibran Delgado-Díaz -- Part III. Lexical variation. The social diffusion of English-based lexical innovations in Miami Cuban Spanish / Andrew Lynch -- Cuban Spanish versus peninsular Spanish : a quantitative lexical approach / Pascual Cantos-Gómez -- Lexical influences and perceptions of Cuban Spanish in Miami / Antoni Fernández Parera -- Part IV. Heritage language acquisition. Pronominal subject expression with inanimate reference in heritage speakers of Cuban Spanish / Alejandro Cuza and José Camacho -- Dative experiencer predicates in child heritage speakers of Cuban-Spanish / Diego Pascual y Cabo and Inmaculada Gómez Soler -- Examining code-switching performance theories : copula choice in Spanish among Cuban heritage speakers / Ana de Prada Pérez and Andrea Hernández.