Manuel Díaz-Campos is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published on acquisition of sociolinguistic variables in L1, sociolinguistic variation, and topics in Spanish laboratory phonology. He is editor of Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2006).

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Introduction: Manuel Díaz-Campos
I. Phonological Variation
II. Morpho-Syntactic variation
III. Language, the individual, and the society
IV. Spanish in contact
V. Spanish in the USA, heritage language, L2 Spanish
VI. Language Policy and Planning. Language attitudes and ideology
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.
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* Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues
* Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish
* Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain