Education

MA, Linguistics (General Concentration), California State University Long Beach, 2010

BA, Spanish (Minors: Linguistics, Education), University of California Irvine, 2007

Presentations

Belligeren[ce], Discrimination, or Incident: A Syntactic and Psychometric Analysis of United Flight 3411 News Coverage
University of Alabama Languages Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, Feb. 2019

What Do I Know?: Grammaticalization and Current Usage of qué sé yo and yo qué sé
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Austin, TX, Oct. 2018

¨It´s all about the [syllable]¨: Positing Rules for Song Translation
University of Alabama Languages Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, Feb. 2018

Pronunciation Games: Improving L2 Pronunciation through the Spanish SOLO App
Alabama World Languages Conference, Mobile, AL, Feb. 2018

Changes in Aspiration of Voiceless Stops in L1 English Speakers Learning Spanish
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Lubbock, TX, Oct. 2017

¨And lots more beside[s]¨: Analysis of besides and in addition to in American and British English Corpora
Western Conference on Linguistics, Boise, ID, Oct. 2017

We Hear, We See, We Say: The Role of Orthography in the Adaptation of Loanwords from Spanish into English
Phonetics and Phonology in Loanword Adaptation Workshop, Cologne, Germany, Jun. 2017

¨To Be or to Not Be¨: Attitudes and Behaviors toward the Split Infinitive in English
8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Athens, Greece, May 2017
(with C. Kelley)

Cognizer Verbs and the First Person Singular Pronoun yo in Contact: A Corpus Study
3rd Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Oct. 2016

Does Learning Another Language Influence the L1? An Investigation of Phonetic Drift through Voice Onset Time
University of Alabama Languages Conference, Feb. 2016

Orthographic Influence on the Perception and Production of Spanish Loans in English
Alabama Modern Language Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, Feb. 2015

Teaching Interests

Spanish 102, 103, 201, 356

English 101, 102

ELI Structure 2, 4, 6

ELI Speaking/Listening 5

Research Interests

Phonetics, phonology, morphology, loan word adaptation, corpus linguistics

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