Includes bibliographical references and index.

Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife, and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Joshua A. Fishman -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the US-Mexico border / Margarita Hidalgo -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Manuel J. Guti�errez and Carmen Silva-Corval�an -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami / Barbara Zurer Pearson and Arlene McGee -- Literacy stories / Ren�e Cisneros and Betty Leone -- Language maintenance institutions of the Isle�no dialect of Spanish / Felice Anne Coles -- Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy and Ofelia Garc�ia -- Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals / John M. Lipski -- Diversification and Pan-Latinity / Frances R. Aparicio -- Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker / David Burnwell.

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