Description and documentation of the Spanish of Costa Rica

  • Agüero, Arturo. 1962. The Spanish of America and Costa Rica. San José: Lehmann.
  • Gainza, Gaston. 1976. "El español de Costa Rica: brief consideration about his study." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 2 (4): 79-84. 
  • Agüero, Arturo. 2009. The Spanish of Costa Rica. Presentation and edition of Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco. San José: Editorial of the University of Costa Rica.
  • Zamora, Hernán. 1945. "The diminutives in Costa Rica." In: Thesaurus: Caro and Crow Institute Newsletter 1 (3): 541-546.
  • Calvo, Annette. 1990. "The plural in the nouns finished in vowel in the canton of Curridabat: Quantitative study." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 16 (2): 75-83.
  • Montero, Luz y Rojas, Xeyna. 1993. The use of the verbal forms of the future in Costa Rican cultic speech. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Murillo, Jorge. 1998. The present of subjunctive and the modal variation in Costa Rican culta speech. Doctoral thesis. State University of New York.
  • Murillo, Jorge. 2000. "Prayer of relative and modal variation in Costa Rican culta speech." In: Revista de Filología Española 80 (1-2): 141-153. 
  • Castle, Maria. 2000. Morphosyntactic aspects of Costa Rica's Spanish: multidimensional analysis. Master's thesis. Bergen University.
  • Murillo, Jorge. 2001. "The past of subjunctive in Costa Rican cultic speech." In: Káñina 25 (1): 65-74.
  • Sánchez, Carlos. 2001. "Prepositional disuse of relative clauses in Costa Rican culta speech." In: Káñina 25 (1): 113-122. 
  • Murillo, Jorge. 2003. "The marking of the subject in the final prayers introduced by for + infinitive in Costa Rican culta speech." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 29 (1): 229-240.
  • Pitloun, Petr. 2003. The verbal times of indication in Costa Rican cultic speech. Doctoral thesis. Bergen University.
  • Pitloun, Petr. 2004. "The perifrase go to + infinitive and the expression of the posterior in the cultic speech of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 31(1): 233-250.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2005. "El particicio con complemento pronominal en el español de Costa Rica." In: Letras (37): 5-29.
  • Pitloun, Petr. 2006. "The use of the subjunctive imperfect in the cultic speech of Costa Rica." In: Revista de Filología Española 86 (2): 339-371.
  • Igland, Andrea. 2008. The appreciative sufixation in the Spanish of Costa Rica: formal and stylistic analysis. Master's thesis. Bergen University.
  • Sánchez, Carlos. 2008. "The use of 'le' by 'les' in Costa Rican Spanish: from cohesion to morphology." In: International Journal of Ibero-American Linguistics 6 (1): 111-127. 
  • Sánchez, Carlos. 2008. "The possessive determinants in Costa Rican spoken Spanish." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica XXXIV (1): 193-208.
  • Sánchez, Carlos. 2008. "The demonstrative determinants and their endophoric value in Costa Rican spoken Spanish." In: Káñina 33 (1): 71-84.
  • Castle, Maria. 2013. "El español de Costa Rica: nivel morfosintactica." In Quesada, Miguel (ed.). The Spanish spoken in Central America: level morphosintactic. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert. 297-340
  • Barboza, Yislén. 2016. Morphological analysis of hypocoristics in Costa Rica. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Leoni, Antonio. 2020. "Plural consistency in infinitive verbal forms of Costa Rica's Spanish." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 46 (Extraordinary number): 195-206.
  • Chavarría, Oscar. 1951. "The Phonemes of Costa Rican Spanish." In: Language 27 (3): 28-253. 
  • Wilson, Jack. 1970. A generative phonological study of Costa Rican Spanish. Doctoral thesis. University of Michigan.
  • Wilson, Jack. 1980. «The Spanish of Costa Rica: a general phonological study». In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 6 (1-2): 3-46.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 1986. "I-I-I phonological division in the Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 12 (2): 129-133.
  • Calvo, Annette. 1997. "The Fricative Phonem / s / in the Culta Speech of San José: Theoretical Implications in the Fonological System of the Coronal." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 23 (1): 235-246.
  • Barahona, Hazel. 2013. Configuration and tonational structure of the declarative and interrogative statements in Spanish in Costa Rica. Bachelor's thesis. National University of Costa Rica.
  • Umaña, Jeanina. 1981. Variable vibrants in middle-class Costa Rican Spanish. Master's thesis. Georgetown University.
  • Fernandez, Joseph. 1982 / 1985. «The Allophones of / b, d, g / in Costa Rican Spanish». In: Orbis 31 (1-2): 121-146.
  • Quesada, Jorge. 1984. The variation of [s] in the metropolitan area of San José, quantitative analysis. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Solano, Yamileth. 1986. "A linguistic variation in Costa Rican speech." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 12 (1): 133-143.
  • Pendones, Cavadonga. 1987. "Connotative phonetic analysis: The / c-in-Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 13 (2): 119-146.
  • López, Flower of Mary. 1987. Quantitative analysis of the alophonic variants of the IdI phonem in the Spanish of the Metropolitan Area of San José. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Jaén, Xinia. 1989 «Change in variation of / s / in Guanacaste.» In: Communication 4 (1): 36-48.
  • Umaña, Jeanina. 1990. "Variation of vibrants in a sample of Costa Rican middle class speech" In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 16 (1): 127-137.
  • Rodríguez, Alejandra. 1992. Phonetic and phonological analysis, segmental level of Spanish of the city of Puntarenas. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Calvo, Annette. 1995. "The phonetic variation of the San José cult speech." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 21 (1): 115-134. 
  • Calvo, Annette and Portilla, Mario. 1998. "Remarkable variants of / ∞ / and / r / in the cultic speech of San José." In: Káñina 22 (1): 83-86.
  • Rios, Gabriela. 1998. The variation [tħ] / [tħ] in the central intermontane Spanish of Costa Rica. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Vargas, Luis. 2000. Phonetics of the Spanish of Costa Rica: multi-dimensional geolinguistic analysis. Master's thesis. Bergen University.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2005. "La variación vocalica en el español de Costa Rica: vista histórico." In: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Nacional Estado a Distancia, Universidad de Valladolid. Philology and Linguistics. Studies offered to Antonio Quilis, Vol. I: 1109-1130. Madrid: CSIC.
  • Vasquez, Luz. 2007. "On the Phonetic Realization and Distribution of Costa Rican Rhotics." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 32 (2): 291-309. 
  • Carrasco, Patricio. 2008. An Acoustic Study of Voiced Stop Alphony in Costa Rican Spanish. Doctoral thesis. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
  • Quesada, Miguel y Vargas, Luis. 2010. "Phonetic features of the Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Quesada, Miguel (coord.). Spanish spoken in Central America: phonetic level: 155-175. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert.
  • Carrasco, Patricio, Hualde, José and Simonet, Miquel. (2012). "Dialectal Differences in Spanish Voicked Obstrucent Alphony: Costa Rican versus Iberian Spanish." In: Phonetica 69 (3): 149-179.
  • Aguilar, Elber. 2014. "The occurrence of the approximate back-line to dental consonants and alveolars in university students of the National University." In: Revista de Lenguas Modernas (20): 183-194.
  • Schwab, Sandra. 2015. "The temporal variables in the Spanish of Costa Rica and Spain: a comparative study." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 41 (1): 127-139. 
  • Chappell, Whitney. 2016. "On the social perception of intervocal / s / voicing in Costa Rican Spanish." In: Language Variation and Change 28: 357-378.
  • Chappell, Whitney. 2017. "The phonetic discrimination of speakers of Costa Rican Spanish." In: Studies of Experimental Phonetics XXVI: 13-61.
  • Chappell, Whitney and Garcia, Christina. 2017. "Variable production and educational social meaning: On the potential physical origin of intervocal / s / voicing in Costa Rican Spanish." In: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10 (1): 1-37. 
  • Calvo, Annette and Ortega, Manuel. 2017. "Some Spanish diptons in the Gran A'rea Metropolitana de Costa Rica: Phonetic phonological analysis." In: Káñina XLI (2): 33-48.
  • Krohn, Haakon. 2019. "Vocal duration in the Spanish of the Gran Área Metropolitana de Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 45 (1): 215-224.
  • Coto, Marvin and Morales, Maribel. 2020. "Acoustic analysis of vowels of Costa Rican children." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 46 (2): 121-138. 
  • Fernández, Juan. 1892. Nahuatlismos de Costa Rica: lexicographic essay on the Mexican voices in the ordinary speech of Costa Ricans. San José: Typography Nacional.
  • Gagini, Carlos. 1892. Dictionary of Barbarisms and Provincialisms of Costa Rica. San José: Typography Nacional.
  • Gagini. Carlos. 2008 [1919]. Dictionary of Costa Ricans (4th ed.). San José: Editorial Costa Rica.
  • Salesian. 1938. Vocabulary of phrases and modisms, written by a Salesian. Carthage: Salesian Typographic School.
  • Bonilla, Abelardo. 1945. Lexicon of Costa Ricans. Buenos Aires: Editorial Jackson.
  • You're coming, Francisco. 1953. The Costa Rican argot. Doctoral thesis. University of Michigan.
  • Sánchez, José León. 1960. Glossary of the hampa in Costa Rica. Colonia Agrícola Penal de San Lucas.
  • You're coming, Francisco. 1971. Banana vocabulary. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Gamboa, Hector. 1974. Costa Rican archaeological vocabulary. San José: Department of Anthropology and History, National Museum of Costa Rica.
  • Gómez, Carlos. 1975. The coffee vocabulary of the province of Cartago. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Zúñiga, Virginia. 1976. The Anglicism in Costa Rican speech. San José: Editorial Costa Rica.
  • Alfaro, Jorge. 1977. Costa Rican trapiche: a language study. Bachelor's thesis. National University of Costa Rica.
  • Rodriguez, Edgar. 1977. Costa Rican Hampesque language. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Zamora, Xinia. 1977. The lexicon of the offices in the Costa Rican popular speech. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Alfaro, Jorge. 1984. "The vocabulary of Costa Rican trapiche." In: Letras (7-8): 217-257.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1985. Regional dictionary of the districts of San Gabriel, Monterrey and La Lega de Aserrí. Aserrí: Editorial Ludovico.
  • Mora, Zuray. 1985. Cristián Rodríguez: the Anglicisms and the Spanish of Costa Rica. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Jara, Carla. 1988. "El lexico de origen indígena en la norma culta de San José." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 14 (1): 109-124.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 1988. "Lexicography of Spanish in Costa Rica: A Critical Vision." In: Journal of Philology, Linguistics and Literature of the University of Costa Rica 14 (2): 147-156. 
  • Sanchez, Victor. September 30, 1988. «Spanish in Costa Rica: Pieses, capesas, cubases». In: University Seminar (842): 6.
  • Jaén, Xinia. 1989. Lexicon of the corn culture in the district of Sardinal, Carrillo, province of Guanacaste. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1990. "For a historical dictionary of American Spanish: the case of Costa Rica." In: Current Spanish 53: 95-110.
  • Quesada, Maria. 1990. The Spanish canyon Juanviglense. Lexicographic study. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • González, Marjorie. 1991. The Anglicism in Costa Rican sports narrations of football, baseball and volleyball. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1992. "The Historical Dictionary of the Spanish of Costa Rica. Brief review of its purposes and achievements." In: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on the History of the Spanish Language II: 491-497.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 1993. "Concho, hypocoristic, quechuism or peninsular term?" In: Káñina 17 (2): 113-116.
  • Rojas, Lillyam. 1993. Corn lexicon in Costa Rica. Geographical-linguistic study. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Garita, Flor. 1994. "Classification of the toponyms of the province of Cartago from common names according to their grammatical class or function." In: Káñina XVIII (1): 99-103.
  • Madrigal, Damis. 1994. Metaphorical creation in multiverbal units of use in the intermontane Spanish of Costa Rica: reference field of the human body. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Garita, Flor. 1995. Toponymy of the province of Cartago. San José: Editorial of the Directorate of Publications and Editorial of the University of Costa Rica.
  • Quesada, Miguel Ángel. 1995. Historical dictionary of Costa Rica's Spanish. San José: EUNED.
  • Sandoval, Marlene. 1995. Lexicon of car mechanics in San Ramón de Alajuela. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Bugge, Hans. 1996. The lexicon of domestic animals in the Central Valley and Northwest and North Costa Rica. Tesina de Hovedfag. Bergen University.
  • Barahona, Alberto. 1996. Basic lexicon of Costa Rican radio. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Leoni, Jorge. 1997. Basic lexicon of the Costa Rican press. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Garita, Flor. 1997. Toponymy of the province of Heredia. San José: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Louis, Betzy. 1997. The lexicon of the human body in Costa Rica: Didialectológico-semantic analysis. Tesina de Hovedfag. Bergen University.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 1998. "New Dictionary of the Spanish of Costa Rica. In: Káñina 22 (3): 109-121.
  • Arroyo, Gladys. 1999. Costa Rican hampa lexicon. Master's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Garita, Flor. 2000. Toponymy of the province of Guanacaste. San José: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Garita, Flor. 2000. Reflective and flexative morphems in the toponymic formation of the province of Guanacaste. In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica XXVI (1): 137-155.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 2000. "Euphemisms in the Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Káñina 23 (3): 133- 141.
  • González, Marjorie. 2000. "Anglicisms used in Costa Rican narrations in football." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 26 (2): 221-233.
  • Espinoza, Elba. 2001. Lexic nahuatlismos Vitality in the Spanish of the northwest of Costa Rica. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Morales, Abraham. 2001. "Some historical and theoretical aspects of fraseology and its treatment in Costa Rican lexicography." In: Káñina XXV (2): 21-30.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 2001. "Hispanic lexicography in Costa Rica: the language dictionaries." In: Káñina 25 (2): 11-20.
  • Gardela, Marco. 2001. Dictionary of guanacastecisms [Vocabulary compiled in the 1950s]. San José: Instituto Costa Ricense de Educación Radiofónica.
  • Ferrero, Luis. 2002. A thousand and so many tiquisms (Costa Rica). San José: EUNED.
  • Garita, Flor. 2002. Toponymy of the province of Puntarenas. San José: Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Leoni, Antonio. 2003. "Proposal for the formalization of the Manual for the drafting of the New Spanish Dictionary of Costa Rica from the Extensive Labelling Language (XML)." In: Káñina XXVII (2): 163-183.
  • Monge, Rocío; Bolaños, Teresa; Fonseca Matilde; Zumbado, Marieta and Guillén, Adriano. 2003. Toponymy of the province of San José. San José: Editorial Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
  • Korneliussen, Randi. 2004. "The lexicon of the sea in Costa Rica: geolinguistic analysis (1)." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 30 (2): 171-204.
  • Korneliussen, Randi. 2004. "The lexicon of the sea in Costa Rica: geolinguistic analysis (2)." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 31 (1): 187-232.
  • González, Marjorie. 2005. "Anglicisms used in Costa Rican narrations in volleyball." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 31 (2): 91-106.
  • Korneliussen, Randi. 2005. "Vocabulary marinero de Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 31 (2): 119-156.
  • Jiménez, Marjorie. 2005. "Dictionary of Costa Ricans. Indices of lexic death in zoonymic phrases." In: Káñina 36 (Special number): 125-234.
  • Chang, Giselle and Del Río, Ximena. 2005. "Lexico de la pesca artisanterenense puntarenense en el Golfo de Nicoya un approachto ethnográfica-semantica en chomes, Costa de Caves, Isla Chira y Puntarenas Centro." In: Káñina 28 (2): 179-190.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2005. "El lexico del café en Costa Rica." In: Lozano, Mariano (coord.). 2005. Tribute to José Joaquín Montes Giraldo. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. 458-483.
  • Zimmer, Tanja. 2005. "El lenguaje estudiantil de Costa Rica: el disfemismo como medio de identificación". En: Káñina 28 (2): 161-178. 
  • Sánchez, Víctor. 2006. Dimensión léxica del español de América. Estudios lexicográficos diferenciales en el español de Costa Rica. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, UNED y Universidad de Valladolid.
  • Sánchez, Víctor. 2006. "Léxico relativo al ámbito del tamal en Costa Rica". En: Káñina 30 (2): 191-197.
  • Segura, Gustavo. 2007. Léxico usual en el ambiente futbolístico en Costa Rica. Tesis de licenciatura. Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Sánchez, Víctor. 2008. "Lexicografía y costarriqueñidad: el Diccionario de costarriqueñismos de Gagini (1918)". En: Gagini, Carlos. Diccionario de costarriqueñismos: 16-23. San José: Editorial Costa Rica.
  • Chang, Giselle. 2009. "Costarriqueñismos en el léxico del boyeo". En: Káñina 33 (Número especial): 107-117.
  • Pizarro, Ginette. 2009. "Variaciones léxicas utilizadas por nuestros adultos mayores en diferentes provincias de Costa Rica". En: ÍSTMICA (12): 155-177. 
  • Ramírez, Neldys. 2009. "Aspectos semánticos en la jerga estudiantil universitaria, sede de Guanacaste". En: Káñina 33 (2): 177-184. 
  • Calvo, Annette. 2010. "El léxico del tabú sexual en las obras lexicográficas costarricenses". En: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 36 (2): 115-131.
  • Jara, Carla. 2010. "Léxico del discurso presidencial costarricense: Algunos ejemplos de aplicación de la lexicometría y el análisis de concordancias". En: Káñina 34 (Número especial): 87-93.
  • Chang, Giselle. 2010. Toponymy of the province of Limon. San José: Ministry of Culture and Youth. Centre for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
  • Garita, Flor and Bedoya, Eduardo. 2010. Toponymy of the province of Alajuela. San José: Editorial of the University of Costa Rica.
  • Flowers, Juan. 2012. "From" Polo "to" Lo Polo ": pragmatic insinuations." In: Inheritance 25 (1-2): 107-115. 
  • Sanchez, Victor. 2013. "From Jeep Willys to the Maya Key: Lexicalized brands in Costa Rica's Spanish." In: Káñina 37 (1): 145-152.
  • Garbanzo, Yamileth; Morera, Marcela; Segura, Rosa and Zeledón, Jéssica. 2013. Toponym of the urbanizations of the Great Metropolitan Area (GAM) of Costa Rica. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Buzek, Ivo. 2013. "The dictionaries of Carlos Gagini as sources of study of gypsies in Costa Rica in the late 19th and early 20th century." In: Valeš, Miroslav and Míča, Slavomír (eds.), 2013, Spanish linguistic diversity; 45-67. Liberec: Universidad Técnica de Liberec.
  • Portilla, Mario. 2014. "Etimologies of the Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Káñina 30 (Special number): 153-162.
  • Rios, Gabriela. 2014. "Neologismos en el español de Costa Rica." In: Káñina 38 (3): 183-196. 
  • Cordero, Sergio. 2014. "Locutions verbales en tres dictionarios del español de Costa Rica. Some questions about its lexicográfico treatment." In: Káñina 38 (2): 161-174. 
  • Chavarría, Rosa y Lloyd, Andrew. 2015. Bilingual dictionary of Costa Rican Spanish: a sociolinguistic approach to «tico talk». Heredia: Editorial Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
  • Cordero, Sergio. 2015. Unidades pluriverbales en los diccionarios del español de Costa Rica: análisis y propuesta de descripción. Tesis de doctorado. Universidad de Barcelona.
  • Garita, Flor y Bedoya, Eduardo. 2015. Toponimia de la red vial de la Gran Área Metropolitana. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Sánchez, Víctor. 2016. "Amarrar, vitalidad de un marinerismo léxico en el español de Costa Rica". En: Káñina 40 (Número extraordinario): 199-212.
  • Barahona, Hazel. 2016. "Ontología formal del léxico de la gastronomía del Valle Central". En: Káñina 40 (Número extraordinario): 59-75.
  • Barahona, Hazel y Leoni, Antonio. 2016. "Merónimos de la gastronomía costarricense: Limón y Valle Central". En: Káñina XL (Número extraordinario): 99-138.
  • Ramírez, Neldys. 2017. "Estudio comparativo aplicado a investigaciones relacionadas con jergas juveniles en Costa Rica". En: Revista Estudios (34): 651-678.
  • Ríos, Gabriela. 2017. Léxico juvenil costarricense. San José: Editorial Digital. Imprenta Nacional.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2018. Nuevo diccionario de costarriqueñismos. [5ta. edición revisada, ampliada y enriquecida con nuevos términos]. Cartago, Costa Rica: Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica.
  • Barahona, Alberto. 2018. "Lexic correspondences in the Spanish of Costa Rica: el chicheme." In: Káñina 42 (2): 157-176. 
  • Portilla, Mario. 2018. "Lanzas del Roma (caló gitano) en el español de Costa Rica." In: Káñina 42 (3): 117-139. 
  • Barcher, Montserrat. 2018. Coffee lexicon in the canton of San Ramón de Alajuela, Costa Rica. In: Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Xeral Linguistics: 94-101.
  • Jiménez, Miriam. 1979. "The Costa Rican voseo seen from a diachronistic perspective." In: New Humanism Magazine (8-9): 41-62.
  • Quesada, Miguel.1987. "Aspects of Costa Rica's Spanish in documents of the colonial era." In: Letras 15-16-17: 61-70.
  • Quesada, Miguel.1987. "The Spanish of Juan Vázquez de Coronado. Descriptive analysis of an idiolect of early Cologne." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística 13 (1): 167-182.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1987. "Historical factors in the formation of the dialectal zones in Costa Rica in the 16th century." In: Káñina 11 (1): 123-128. 
  • Quesada, Miguel.1987. "Lexico ranadero de la Costa Rica Colonial." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística 13 (2): 147-156.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1987. Documentary sources for the study of the colonial Spanish of Costa Rica. San José: Editorial Alma Mater.
  • Cabal, Munia. 1997. The Spanish of the first quarter of the 19th century in Costa Rica: a phonetic-phonetic analysis. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Angel.1988. "Forms of treatment in Costa Rica during the Colony." In: Communication 3 (1): 41-51.
  • León, Maribel. 1988. El seseo en el español colonial escrito de Costa Rica (1561-1600). Tesis de licenciatura. Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1989. "El español de Costa Rica en los relatos de viajeros". En: Communication IV (2): 54-63.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1989. "La lengua española y la sociedad colonial en Costa Rica". En: Sibaja, Luis (coord.), 1989, Costa Rica colonial: ponencias sobre Costa Rica presentadas en el simposio La Sociedad Colonial en Mesoamérica y el Caribe realizado en San José, Costa Rica en diciembre de 1986; 126-139. San José: Ediciones Guayacán.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 1990. El español colonial de Costa Rica. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Ulate, Renán. 1991. El seseo en el español escrito en el noroeste de Costa Rica durante el siglo XVI. Zonas de Esparza y Guanacaste. Tesis de licenciatura. Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Rojas, Elena (comp. y ed.). 2000. "Costa Rica: siglos XVI – XVIII". En: Documentos para la historia lingüística de Hispanoamérica. Siglos XVI a XVIII. Tomo II . Anejos del Boletín de la Real Academia Española LVIII; 171-248.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2003. "Formas de tratamiento en Costa Rica: visión histórica" En: Girón, José y De Bustos, José (coords.). 2006. Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Vol. III: 2323-2336. Madrid: Arco Libros.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2009. Historia de la lengua española en Costa Rica. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
  • Cabal, Munia. 2013. From Reference to Face: The Evolution of You in Costa Rican Spanish. Doctoral thesis. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
  • Quesada, Miguel. 2013. "The verbal system of the Spanish of Costa Rica at the dawn of the independent era." In: Sign and sign (12): 81-102.
  • Cabal, Munia. 2016. "'You can already see how pleased I am, as well as because you put my advice into practice': a pronominal variation in the colonial Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Káñina 40 (1): 43-70.
  • Sanchez, Victor. 1983. Costa Rican language questionnaire. San José: Editorial of the University of Costa Rica.
  • Quesada, Miguel.1992. English-ethnographic Atlas of Costa Rica. Questionnaire. San José: Editorial Nueva Década.
  • Berk- Seligson, Susan. 1978. Phonological variables in a synchronic / diachronic sociolinguistic context: the case of Costa Rican Spanish. Doctoral thesis. University of Arizona.
  • Berk- Seligson, Susan and Seligson, Mitchell. 1978. "The Phonological Correlation of Social Stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica." In: Lingua 46 (1): 1-28. 
  • Berk- Seligson, Susan. 1984. "Subject Reactions to Phonological Variation in Costa Rican Spanish." In: Journal of Psychological Research 13 (6): 415- 442.
  • Quesada, Jorge. 1988. "Sociolinguistic analysis of the / s in the metropolitan area of San José." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 14 (2): 167-172.
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