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Jorge Guitart

Jorge Guitart

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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
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