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About me
I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University. I received my Ph.D in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. I also hold a B.A. (Llicenciatura) in English Philology from the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Majorca (Spain), and a M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. My research interests focus primarily on bilingual speech production and perception, sociolinguistics and experimental phonetics. I have been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish-Catalan bilinguals, Spanish heritage speakers in Texas, English heritage speakers in Spain, and Spanish speakers in rural areas of the Dominican Republic. Other research interests include language variation and change, dialectology and theoretical English, Spanish and Catalan linguistics.
My doctoral dissertation, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant #1226964, examined cross-linguistic influence in the production and perception of highly proficient early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Together with a research team from the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, and through generous funding from the U.S. Department of Education, we have developed the Bilingual Language Profile (BLP), a free and open instrument for assessing language dominance that produces a general bilingual profile by taking into account a variety of linguistic and social variables. This assessment tool is available for researchers, educators and anyone with an interest in language dominance and can be accessed here. In addition to my research duties, I enjoy playing and coaching tennis, traveling, breakfast tacos, happy hours, watching Barça games on the weekend, and listening to live music.
Contact information:
Mark Amengual
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
1 University Station B3700, Austin, TX 78712
markamengual [at] utexas [dot] edu
I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University. I received my Ph.D in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. I also hold a B.A. (Llicenciatura) in English Philology from the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Majorca (Spain), and a M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. My research interests focus primarily on bilingual speech production and perception, sociolinguistics and experimental phonetics. I have been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish-Catalan bilinguals, Spanish heritage speakers in Texas, English heritage speakers in Spain, and Spanish speakers in rural areas of the Dominican Republic. Other research interests include language variation and change, dialectology and theoretical English, Spanish and Catalan linguistics.
My doctoral dissertation, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant #1226964, examined cross-linguistic influence in the production and perception of highly proficient early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Together with a research team from the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, and through generous funding from the U.S. Department of Education, we have developed the Bilingual Language Profile (BLP), a free and open instrument for assessing language dominance that produces a general bilingual profile by taking into account a variety of linguistic and social variables. This assessment tool is available for researchers, educators and anyone with an interest in language dominance and can be accessed here. In addition to my research duties, I enjoy playing and coaching tennis, traveling, breakfast tacos, happy hours, watching Barça games on the weekend, and listening to live music.
Contact information:
Mark Amengual
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
1 University Station B3700, Austin, TX 78712
markamengual [at] utexas [dot] edu
