This volume contains 29 papers selected from among those presented at the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, which took place from October 21-24, 2009 at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. The papers are grouped into sections on sociolinguistics and language variation; acquisition and applied linguistics; phonology; and syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They include the plenaries from John M. Lipski, Pedro Martín Butragueño, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, and Pilar Prieto. The complete table of contents is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/13/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.

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