The Spanish dialects of the Southwest United States have received little serious attention until recently. The present volume contains studies designed to contribute to the understanding and acceptance of Southwest Spanish. The book consists of the following chapters: (1) "Linguistic Diversity in Southwest Spanish," by Garland D. Bills and Jacob Ornstein; (2) "The Phonology of Southwest Spanish," by David William Foster; (3) "Toward a Grammatical Analysis of Southwest Spanish," by Fritz G. Hensey; (4) "Lexical Analysis of Southwest Spanish," by Jerry Craddock; (5) "The Segmental Phonology of Los Angeles Spanish," by Robert N. Phillips; (6) "Structural Analysis of the Verb System in New Mexican Spanish," by Andrew D. Cohen; (8) "Linguistic and Socio-Economic Correlations in the Spoken Language of Mexican-American Children," by Bernardo Vallejo; and (9) "Language Mixing in Chicano Bilingual Speech," by Rogelio Reyes. (CFM)