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Professor • Department Chair
Spanish and Portuguese

Fall 2024 office hours: Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:30听and by appointment

McKenna 133

Research Areas

Usage-based phonology, language variation and change, the Spanish of New Mexico锘匡豢

Selected Articles

  • 2023. 鈥淯sage-based approaches to bilingual phonetics and phonology.鈥澨The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge. Mark Amengual (Ed.).听听

  • 2023. "Variable Indirect Object Pronoun Expression: A usage-based analysis of Galician and Spanish" Referring to Discourse Participants in Ibero-Romance Languages.听Language Science Press. Peter Herbeck & Pekka Posio (Eds.). (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2022. Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children鈥檚 [subject pronoun + verb] usage.听First Language, 42(3), 361-382. (Co-author: Naomi Shin)

  • 2022. 鈥淓l infinitivo flexionado en gallego: Un an谩lisis l茅xico basado en el uso.鈥 In Enrico Torre ed.听El mapa ling眉铆stico del noroccidente ib茅rico: contacto, variaci贸n y cambio.听M眉nchen, Germany: Lincom Europa, 39-57. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2021. Lexical impacts of words鈥 history of occurrence in fast speech: Word and segment shortening in Spanish.听Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory听19.1 (Co-authors: William D. Raymond, Earl K. Brown, Rich File-Muriel)听

  • 2021. O infinitivo flexionado en galego: unha an谩lise variacionista baseada na lingua oral.听Estudos de Ling眉铆stica Galega, 13. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2019. Bringing purported black sheep into the fold: Galician inflected infinitives and Spanish pre-infinitival nominative subjects.听Languages,听40.2. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2018. 鈥淐umulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon: Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation鈥.听Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee. John Benjamins. 192, 127.听

  • 2018. Variable subject pronominal expression in non-finite clauses: Implications for variant patterns and emergent contexts.听Lingua, 215, 27-39. (Co-authors: Javier Rivas, Mayra Cort茅s-Torres)听

  • 2018. 鈥淐umulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon: Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation鈥.听Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee. John Benjamins. 192, 127.听

  • 2018. 鈥淯sage-based approaches to Spanish Linguistics鈥.听Handbook of Spanish Linguistics.听Cambridge University Press.听

  • 2016.听听Language Variation and Change 28, 175鈥202.听(Co-authors: William D. Raymond, Alice Healy)听

  • 2015.听听Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 8, 59-83. 2听听 (Co-author: Mark Amengual)听

  • 2015.听听International Journal of Bilingualism 19, 387-406.听听

  • 2013.Word Classes in Studies of Phonological Variation: Conditioning Factors or Epiphenomena?听. Ed. by Chad Howe, Sarah Blackwell & Margaret Lubbers Quesada. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 179-186.听

  • 2013. Concordancia variable con haber en espa帽ol puertorrique帽o.听Bolet铆n de Ling眉铆stica听24, 102-118. (Co-author: Javier Rivas).听

  • 2013. 鈥淧uerto Rican Intensifiers: 隆bien/muy variables!鈥澨(Co-author: Mayra Cort茅s-Torres). Ed. by Ana M. Carvalho & Sara Beaudrie. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 11-19.听

  • 2012..听Language Variation and Change听24, 317鈥341. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听听

  • 2012.听.听Diachronica, 29.2, 139鈥161. (Co-author: William D. Raymond)听

  • 2012.听.听Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics听1,2. 72鈥89. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2012.听听(Co-author: William D. Raymond).听听Ed. by Stefan Th. Gries & Dagmar S. Divjak. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. 35鈥52.听听

  • 2012.听 鈥淪yllable-final and Syllable-initial /s/ Reduction in Cali, Colombia: One Variable or Two?鈥 (Co-author: Earl Brown).听Linguistic Studies in Colombian Varieties of Spanish. Ed. by Richard File-Muriel & Rafael Orozco. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 89鈥106.听

  • 2012. 鈥淪yntactic and pragmatic usage of the [estar听+ adjective] construction in Puerto Rican Spanish: 隆Est谩 brutal!鈥. (Co-author: Mayra Cort茅s-Torres).听.Ed. by Kimberly Geeslin & Manuel D铆az-Campos. Somerville, MA.听

  • 2011. Correlaciones entre forma y funci贸n en las construcciones interrogativas parciales del espa帽ol de Puerto Rico / Form ~ function correlations in WH-interrogative constructions in Puerto Rican Spanish.听Estudios de Ling眉铆stica de la Universidad de Alicante听25, 289鈥315. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2011.听.听Spanish in Context听8.1, 23鈥49. (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2010. 鈥淰ariable Development of Intersubjectivity in Spanish鈥. (Co-author: Javier Rivas).听听Ed. by Aquilino S谩nchez & Mois茅s Almela. Frankfurt/Berlin: Peter Lang Frankfurt. 61鈥78.听

  • 2010. Las interrogativas hendidas en espa帽ol: 驴c贸mo es que se usan?听Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 29.2,75鈥95.听 (Co-author: Javier Rivas)听

  • 2009. Phonological Evidence of Crosslinguistic Exemplar Connections.听Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics听2.2, 257鈥274. (secondary author: David Harper)听

  • 2006. The Velarization of Labial, Coda Stops in Spanish: A Frequency Account.听Revista de Ling眉铆stica Te贸rica y Aplicada, 44.2, 47鈥58.听

  • 2005. Syllable-initial /s/ in Traditional New Mexican Spanish: Linguistic Factors Favoring Reduction 鈥榓hina鈥.听Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 24, 1鈥2, 13鈥30.听

  • 2005. New Mexican Spanish: Insight into the Variable Reduction of 'la ehe inihial' (/s-/).听Hispania听88.4. 813鈥824.听

  • 2003. 鈥淪panish /s/: A Different Story from Beginning (initial) to End (final)鈥. (Co-author: Rena Torres Cacoullos). A Romance Perspective in Language Knowledge and听听

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