Four
full-time faculty members in the Department are engaged in teaching and
research in Hispanic Linguistics.
Professor Camps' main area of research is second language acquisition (particularly in Spanish and Catalan). He has worked in areas such as the acquisition of tense and aspect distinctions, oral self-correction, the role of formal instruction, input processing, and the use of think-aloud protocols to study attention to form and meaning in the input. Some of the graduate courses he has taught include Research Design, Methods, and Statistics in Applied Linguistics; Input and Interaction in Second Language Acquisition; Formal Instruction and the Acquisition of Spanish; and Current issues in Second Language Acquisition. He is the director of the Beginning Spanish program.
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Jessi Aaron (PhD, University of New Mexico)
Jessi Elana Aaron is interested in language variation and change, including sociolinguistics and contact-induced change, as well as issues of language ideology. She is particularly interested in how universal diachronic tendencies in the formation of grammar are played out in the morphosyntactic phenomena found in everyday language use. Dr. Aaron received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of New Mexico, under the direction of Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology (Ethnology), also from the University of New Mexico, and a second M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, where she did her undergraduate work as well, in Spanish and Political Science. Her work with Drs. Mary Pratt and Guadalupe Vald?s at Stanford University produced two theses concerning physical disability and social marginalization in Puebla, Mexico, where she has done ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork since 1998. Journals that have published Dr. Aaron's work include Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, and Cognitive Linguistics. Dr. Aaron teaches courses in sociolinguistics and language contact at
UF.E-mail: jeaaron@ufl.edu
Web page: http://plaza.ufl.edu/jeaaron
Gillian Lord (PhD, Pennsylvania State University)
Professor Lord works in the area of second language acquisition as well. Her interests lie not only in the theoretical explanations of language, but also in how English-speakers are able to learn Spanish as a second language: what aspects are learnable, what aspects are problematic, and how these aspects of a second language can best be acquired. Her previous work - appearing for example in The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax:The L1/L2 Connection (Kluwer) - focused on the acquisition of syntax and morphology, although currently she specializes in Spanish phonology and phonetics. In addition to second language phonology, her current research also studies the implementation and effect of technology in the foreign language clasroom. Professor Lord directs the Intemediate Spanish Program in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
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David
Pharies (PhD, University of California at Berkeley)
David Pharies specializes in Spanish and
Romance Historical Linguistics, having studied with Yakov Malkiel at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of five books
and twenty-seven articles in this field, his most notable publication
being the Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles,
recently published by Editorial Gredos of Madrid. In addition, Dr.
Pharies completed a project outside this specialty as editor-in-chief
of the fifth edition of the University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary.
He has been a Humboldt fellow, a Fulbright fellow (both in Germany), and
an NEH fellow (three times).
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