Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation: A Case Study of Presentational 'Haber' Pluralization in Caribbean Spanish

Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Earlier Studies In (perceptual) Dialectology -- Earlier Studies In Variationist Sociolinguistics -- Summary -- Cognitive Construction Grammar And Language Variation -- Cognitive Construction Grammar -- Cognitive Construction Grammar And Language Variation -- Summary -- Research Questions And Hypotheses -- Research Questions -- Hypotheses -- Summary -- Methodology -- Judgment Sample, Selection Criteria, And Stratification Variables -- Fieldwork Methods -- Transcription, Selection Of Cases, And Envelope Of Variation -- Statistical Toolkit -- Comparative Sociolinguistics -- Summary -- Semantic And Syntactic Properties Of Presentational Haber -- The Meaning Of The Presentational Haber Constructions : Pointing-out -- The Nominal Argument -- The Adverbial Phrase -- Implicit Nominal Arguments And Adverbial Phrases -- Summary And Box Diagrams -- Cognitive, Social, And Individual Constraints On Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Cognitive Constraints On Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Structure Of The Corpus And The Regression Models -- Markedness Of Coding -- Statistical Preemption -- Structural Priming -- Interaction Between The Linguistic Predictors -- Relative Importance Of The Linguistic Predictors -- Summary -- Social Constraints On Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Social Constraints : Age, Education, And Gender -- Linguistic Predictors Across Social Groups -- Relative Importance Of The Linguistic Predictors Across Social Groups -- Summary -- Individual Constraints On Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Distribution Across Individuals -- Random Intercepts, Slopes, And Participant-specific Regression Coefficients -- Linguistic Predictors Across Individuals -- The Behavior Of The Havana University Graduates -- Summary -- Cognitive, Social, And Individual Constraints On Presentational Haber Pluralization -- Cognitive Constraints -- Social Constraints -- Individual Constraints -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Story-reading Task -- Questionnaire-reading Task. Jeroen Claes. Revised And Expanded Version Of Author's Thesis (ph. D.) -- University Of Antwerp, 2014. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 219-231) And Index.