What factors affect the way we sound when we speak a language? I'm interested in providing some answers to this question, namely for Spanish, at the level of both prosody (i.e., intonation, stress, rhythm) and individual sounds. I have looked at effects on the sound system of Spanish related to segments, syllables, words, phrases, pragmatic and syntactic conditions, and social variables. In the classroom, I integrate these research interests into courses dealing with general Spanish linguistics and Spanish phonetics and phonology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in UW-Madison's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Additionally, I am currently serving as the Director of UW-Madison's Language Sciences program, am affiliated with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program and the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, and am the Editor-in-Chief of the Heritage Language Journal.
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1220 Linden Drive
1018 Van Hise Hall
Madison, WI 53706
Language Sciences Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1220 Linden Drive
1168 Van Hise Hall
Madison, WI 53706
Email: [email protected]