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