“…The difference of 15 percentage points separating overt expression for singular versus plural verbs is, nevertheless, much smaller in Castañer than for the other Puerto Rican samples, where the difference is in the 30-percentage-point range, and it is more in line with the differences between singulars and plurals reported for Castile. Castile (Rosengren, 1974) 21% 23,890 Madrid (Enríquez, 1984) 22% 22,357 Madrid (Cameron, 1992) 21% 2061 PR, San Juan (Morales, 1986) 46% 12,182 PR, San Juan (Cameron, 1992) 45% 2122 PR, San Juan (Ávila-Jiménez, 1996) 40% 4713 PR, Boston (Hochberg, 1986) 40% 3019 PR, New York City (Flores-Ferrán, 2004) 45% 15,617 PR, New York City 35% 3805 Castañer, Puerto Rico 28% 2882…”