My research focuses on the social and linguistic factors that account for variation in how native and non-native speakers use Spanish.
My work can be framed in the areas of quantitative sociolinguistics (e.g., phonological variation, syntactic variation, acquisition of variable phenomena), second language phonology, laboratory phonology, and contact phenomena. I study sociolinguistic variation using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates contributions from the contact language literature, laboratory phonology, and usage-based approaches.
Furthermore, I have investigated second language phonology.
As a researcher in sociolinguistics, I often teach content that complements my own studies, and my own research often enhances the instruction that I provide.
Current Research Projects:
- Effects of frequency in the analysis of variable phenomena: evidence from Spanish data
- The contributions of perception studies to the description of dialectal varieties of Spanish.
- Las actitudes de los puertorriqueños hacia dos variables sociolingüísticas: Análisis de la evaluación sobre la base de la producción y la percepción.
- A variationist investigation of vowel sequences: The raising of /e/ and /o/ in Spanish.
- Priming effects in the use of más + negative constructions: A quantitative analysis of oral data.
- Habían profesores: A usage-based analysis of the pluralization of haber in Spanish.
Research Interests
- sociolinguistics; phonological variation; phonological acquisition; experimental phonetics; second language phonology; Spanish pronunciation; syntactic variation
Research Interests: social and linguistic factors in language variation; quantitative sociolinguistics; second language phonology; laboratory phonology; language contact
Subject Area: Spanish & Portuguese
Keywords:
- Minority Languages and Cultures Project
