Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese
• Linguistics

Degrees and Institutions

• Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio Sate University, 2001
• M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1998
• B.A., Spanish, Michigan State University, 1995

Selected Publications

• Rising accents in Castilian Spanish: A revision of Sp_ToBI. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 7: 117-146. 2007. (second author: Pilar Prieto)
• Narrow focus intonation in Castilian Spanish absolute interrogatives. Journal of Language and Linguistics 5: 295-311. 2006.
• Cognitive factors in the perception of Spanish stress placement: Implications for a model of speech perception. Linguistics 44: 1237-1267. 2006.
• Intervocalic rhotic pronunciation by adult learners of Spanish as a second language. In Carol A. Klee and Timothy L. Face (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, 47-58. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2006.
• Selected proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (edited). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2006. (second editor: Carol A. Klee)
• Selected proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (edited). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 2006. (first editor: Carol A. Klee)
• F0 peak height and the perception of sentence type in Castilian Spanish. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 2(6): 49-65. 2005.
• Descriptive adequacy vs. psychological reality: The case of two restrictions on Spanish stress placement. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 32(2): 1-16. 2005. (second author: Scott M. Alvord)
• Syllable weight and the perception of Spanish stress placement by second language learners. Journal of Language and Learning 3: 90-103. 2005.
• Laboratory approaches to Spanish phonology (edited). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004.
• Intonational marking of contrastive focus in Castilian Spanish. Munich: Lincom Europa. 2002.

Research Activities

• Speech perception as evidence in phonology:
• Spanish phonology from the perspective of language use:
• Intonation of Castilian Spanish:
• Acquisition, development, and ultimate attainment of the Spanish sound system by native English-speaking adult learners:

Professional Activities

• Editor, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2007-present.
• Editorial Board, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2004-present.
• Director of Outreach and member of the Executive Committee, Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
• Organizer, with Kimberly Geeslin (Indiana University), Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology conference, held at the University of Minnesota.
• Organizer, 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, held at the University of Minnesota along with the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Language (Carol A. Klee, organizer).
• Organizer, Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology conference, held at the University of Minnesota.

Awards

• Presidents' Prize - Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States,

Courses Taught

• Span 3107 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• Span 3701 - Phonetics and Phonology
• Span 3707 - Linguistic Accuracy through Translation
• Span 3972 Senior Seminar
• Span 5711 - The Structure of Modern Spanish: Phonology
• Span 5721 - Spanish Laboratory Phonology
• Span 8710 - Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Phonology