CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 - FALL 2008
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Ratio Frequency: Insights into Usage Effects on Phonological Structure from
Hiatus Resolution in New Mexican Spanish
Matthew C. Alba
A Reanalysis of Paradigmatic Variation in the Old Spanish Imperfect
Nicholas C. Henriksen
How Pragmatically Odd! Interface Delays and Pronominal Subject
Distribution in L2 Spanish
Jason Rothman
BOOK REVIEWS
Martínez Celdrán & Fernández Planas: Manual de fonética española:
Articulaciones y sonidos del español
Travis G. Bradley
STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE
Topic: First Language Acquisition
Research on First Language Acquisition of Spanish Phonology
Conxita Lleó
VIEWPOINTS
Topic: The Role of Language Variation in Mental Grammars
Variation and Second Language Grammars
Robert Bayley & Dennis R. Preston
Phonological and Grammatical Variation in Exemplar Models
Joan Bybee & Rena Torres Cacoullos
Syntactic Variation: The Case of Spanish and Portuguese Subjects
José Camacho
The Role of Language Variation in Mental Grammars: An
Optimality-Theoretic Perspective
Sonia Colina
DISSERTATION NOTICES
Acquiring a Variable Structure: An Interlanguage Analysis of
Second-Language Mood Use in Spanish
Aarnes Gudmestad
The Role of Perceptual Learning Style Preferences and Instructional Method
in the Acquisition of L2 Spanish Vocabulary
Daniel G. Tight
Doing Being Boricua: Perceptions of National Identity and the Sociolinguistic
Distribution of Liquid Variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
Wilfredo Valentin-Marquez



Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics