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Hands-On Research

Our research spans the globe, from Mexico to Uruguay, Spain to North Carolina. You'll find us collecting data out in the community and inside the classroom. And sharing our research, everywhere from international conferences to Fiesta del Pueblo in Raleigh. Our faculty and students are addressing some of the biggest questions in Hispanic linguistics, bringing #ThinkAndDo to life.

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Language change & dialect contact in Yucatan, Mexico

Dr. Jim Michnowicz is leading a team investigating Maya-Spanish contact, and how Yucatan Spanish is rapidly changing, as younger speakers abandon many regional dialect forms.

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Heritage Spanish in NC

Dr. Rebecca Ronquest researches Spanish pronunciation among bilingual speakers residing in the Southeast, revealing that the complex interplay of contact with English and other dialects of Spanish is shaping the ways bilinguals speak in the region. 

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Oral Proficiency and Second Language Acquisition

Dr. Mark Darhower researches discursive aspects of second language acquisition, particularly the development of oral proficiency in instructional settings. He is currently working with a Spanish literature colleague in Pennsylvania on enhancing classroom discourse in advanced Spanish literature classes to maximize oral proficiency development. 

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Conferences

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In 2011, the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) conference was founded at NC State. A one-day conference that focuses on research by scholars in the southeast and/or on Spanish in NC and beyond, SLINKI has been held at different universities around the region, and has led to collaborations among faculty and students. SLINKI is another example of our focus on sharing the results of our research throughout NC and beyond.

Research talks

Dr. Jim Michnowicz describes the Hispanic linguistics program's research on Spanish in North Carolina, as part of the Language Diversity Ambassador's lecture series.

Dr. Jim Michnowicz presents new research on language change across time in Yucatan Spanish, as part of the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Virtual Colloquium series.