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I'm a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics. My current research at Cal focuses on the phonetics and phonology of U.S. Spanish as well as language attitudes and ideologies of U.S. Spanish speakers. As a sociolinguist I seek to apply my findings toward validating U.S. Spanish and increasing its legitimacy in educational settings. I received my B.A. in French and Linguistics at UCLA and subsequently received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. I spent the next 9 years teaching English as a second language, followed by Spanish and French in the California K-...

My name is Nikolai Andrés Schwarz. I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the HispanicLanguages and Literature on track 3 (the linguistics track). I received a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. My research interests primarily lie in phonetics and psycholinguistics, specifically investigating these topics in Caribbean varieties of Spanish that have been underrepresented in the phonetics and psycholinguistic literature. My previous and current work at UBC has focused on speech-processing bilinguals and Spanish speakers in the Speech...

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