Expertise

Specializations

  • Spanish phonetics and phonology, Laboratory phonology, Variation

Current research projects

  • Utterance signaling through intonation
  • Trills in Veracruz, Mexican Spanish
  • Dominican Spanish (acoustic characterization)
  • Acquisition of L2 phonology

Research Interests

  • experimental spanish phonology; phonetics; variation
Communities
Portuguese, Chicano/a Studies, Spanish
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Spanish Linguistics, 2003
MA, Brigham Young University, Spanish Linguistics, 1997
BA, Brigham Young University, Spanish, 1994