Sociolinguistic change across the Spanish speaking world : case studies in honor of Anna María Escobar Introduction: Talia Bugel & Kim Potowski Family transmission and social networks: insights on a Basque Spanish case María Puy Ciriza Exploring the functions of Así in Peruvian Spanish Susana De los Heros and Margarita Jara Pragmatic functions of quotatives in Spanish in contact with English at the US Mexico border Claudia Holguín Convergence in feature mapping: Evidentiality aspect and nominalizations in Quechua Spanish bilinguals Liliana Sánchez Intervocalic fricative voicing in the Spanish of Barcelona: considerations for contact induced sociophonetic innovation Justin Davidson Son importantes los dos: language use and attitudes among wives of Mexican profesionistas on the U.S. Mexico border Patricia MacGregor Mendoza Intergenerational perceptions of Spanish use and viability in first generation Midwestern Latino households Isabel Velázquez Conclusion: Zsuzsanna Faygal