Graduate Students

Riley VanMeter

Ph.D. Student

Riley VanMeter is a Ph.D. Student in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Romance Languages (2023) and a B.A. in International Business and Spanish (2022, Summa cum laude) from The University of Alabama. His research interests include morphosyntactic change and variation, grammaticalization, quantitative and experimental methodology, sociolinguistics, comparative Romance linguistics/grammars, historical (socio-)linguistics, languages in contact, and corpus linguistics.

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Julián Vargo

Ph.D. Student

Julian Vargo is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics.

His research interests include phonetics, phonology, language revitalization, language contact, and sociolinguistics. His work focuses on vowels, vowel dispersion, suprasegmental phonetics, and vocalic timing in several languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Ladino, and Kalaallisut.

Julian currently serves as a graduate student researcher for the Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California Corpus. He is the co-coordinator for UC Berkeley's Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group and is a researcher at the Script Encoding...