Photo: Research at the Sociolinguistics Lab at UTEP

Research Interests

• Spanish phonetics and phonology
• Spanish sociolinguistics
• Bilingualism & language/dialect contact
  
• Quantitative and laboratory approaches to the study of sound variation and change
• Language attitudes and ideologies
• Linguistic landscape

Current Research Projects

• The  production and perception of sounds by Spanish/English bilinguals.
  
• Sound variation and change in Mexican Spanish.
  
• The Linguistic Landscape of the US-Mexico Border.
  
• Heritage Bilingual Intonation in the Borderlands.