I am the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Ph.D. in Second Language Studies. I teach Spanish linguistics and general linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Research Interests
My interests lie in Spanish in the United States and dialects of American English. I also study obsolescence of minority languages in the United States
Courses Taught
- LIN 200 Introduction to Linguistics
- LIN 511 Dialects of American English
- LIN 545 Pidgins and Creoles
- LIN 672 Linguistic Anthropology
- LIN 690 Doctoral Readings
- LIN 795 Doctoral Prospectus
- LIN 796 Dissertation Research and Writing
- LIN 797 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- SPAN 330 Spanish Grammar for Oral Communication
- SPAN 371
Education
B.A. Spanish, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge (1981)
M.A. Linguistics, University of Utah (1983)
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (1991)