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NICHE COURSES:

SPANISH 3120/5120
Spanish Phonetics & Pronunciation
Annual course offered every fall. Improve your accent in just 15 weeks! Extensive practice pronouncing standard Latin American Spanish, with emphasis on smooth speech stylistics. Prerequisite: SPAN 2020.

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SPANISH 3015
Contemporary Cuba
Summer intersession course offered annually in Cuba. Designed for all majors. Travel to this amazing Caribbean island nation and get an inside view of what makes it tick. Learn first-hand from Cuban guest speakers about sustainable agriculture, education, health care, economics, and the Cuban revolution in the 21st century. Prerequisite: your curiosity!

F L 6700
Introduction to Linguistics
Annual graduate course offered every spring, taught in English. Designed for teachers of modern languages. Includes a survey of the major linguistic disciplines, including psycholinguistics, phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Enrolled? Go to eLearn and check it out.

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Pronunciación de la lengua española para anglohablantes
Copyright © 2009

Focus Publishing, Newburyport, MA

ISBN 978-1-58510-348-5 | $28.95

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PUBLISHED PAPERS

2005. Attraction to the unmarked in Old Spanish leveling. In Studies in Hispanic Linguistics: Papers from the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

2002. Coda obstruents and local constraint conjunction in north-central Peninsular Spanish. In Current Issues in Romance Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2000. Constraint interaction in Spanish /s/-aspiration: Three Peninsular varieties. In Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium: Selected Proceedings from the Third Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

OTHER RESEARCH:

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2009. Vowel syncope and (non)epenthesis in the Latin imparisyllabics. 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. University of Arizona (Tucson).

2005. The optimal leveling of Latin imparisyllabic nouns. 36th Conference of the Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS), University of Massachusetts (Amherst).

2004. Honest compositions in a Babel Fish generation. Annual Conference of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (Nashville). [Appendix]

2003. Where the boys aren’t: Gender demographics in the foreign language classroom. Annual Conference of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (Nashville).

2001. Sound as symbolic gesture: Spanish sonidos. 5th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). [with Stuart E. Bernstein]

DISSERTATION

1998. Stylistic Variation in Spanish Phonology. Ph.D. dissertation. The Ohio State University.

LINGUISTIC STUDIES MINOR:

The Linguistic Studies minor is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program that exposes students to the many ways that humans use and interact with language. The student will gain a comprehensive view of how linguistics is examined in the disciplines of anthropology, English, psychology, communication disorders, classical and modern languages, and philosophy. Upon completing the minor, the student will have broad knowledge of linguistic principles, as well as specific knowledge relating to a chosen language of focus.

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