I am a phonetician and laboratory phonologist. I am an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona, and I obtained my PhD in Romance linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work mostly on Iberian Romance (Catalan and Spanish in particular), and I believe that the study of sound change, bilingualism and second language speech learning are excellent tools to better understand the nature of sound categories and sound patterns in natural human languages more generally.
