Jorge Guitart
Professor
Office: 923 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1194
Email: guitart@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site
Degrees
- B.A. from George Washington University
- M.S. from Georgetown University
- Ph.D. from Georgetown University
Areas of Specialization
- Phonological theory, Spanish phonology, and Semantics in Spanish Pedagogical Grammar
Publications
- Sonido y sentido: teoría y práctica de la pronunciación del español. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004.
- "Del dominio relativo de la variación estilística de los sonidos róticos del español de Puerto Rico a la luz de la teoría de las subfonologías." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 27:169-182, 2000
- "Unary features in Phonology and Spanish Palatals". Linguistic Theory and Language Development in Hispanic Languages, ed. by Silvina Montrul and Francisco Ordoñez. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2003, pp. 113-118.
- "En torno a un cambio en la pronunciación del español de la Habana en el último tercio del siglo XX y sus posibles causas." Lingua Americana 14:9-20, 2004
- "Sociophonetic Knowledge of Spanish and Control of Style." Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed, by Lotfi Sayahi and Maurice Westmoreland. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2005, pp. 16-23
Current Research Projects
- Bilectalism and sociophonetic variation
- Cognitive semantic approaches to Spanish nominals
- Phonetics of syllable contraction in Spanish
Frequently Taught Courses
- SPA 455/555: Spanish Phonology
- FR/ITA/SPA 382 Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Theory
- RLL 525: Second Language Acquisition Theory
- UGC 211 HON: American Pluralism Honors Section
- SPA 325: Phonetics
- SPA 506: Spanish American Dialectology
- SPA 533: Semantics in Spanish Pedagogical Grammar