Jorge Guitart
PhD
Specializations
Principles and Processes Phonology; Vowel coalescence in Spanish; Dialectal variation in the perception of English vowels by Spanish speakers; Role and case in Spanish nominals; Cleft constructions in Latin American Spanish
Education
- PhD, Georgetown University, 1973
- MS, Georgetown University, 1970
- BA, George Washington University, 1967
Selected Publications
- "Consonantes." Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica I. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- (with Gabriela Vokic) "Coalescence of Four-Vocoid Sequences: Containing a Single Non-High Vowel in Spanish." Lingua Americana 36 (2015): 17-44.
- "Del uso de las oraciones hendidas en el español actual". Revista Internacional d'Humanitats 27 (2013): 89-104.
- (with Gabriela Vokic) “On the phonetic realization of underlying sequences of more than three vocoids in Spanish: spectrographic evidence and theoretical implications.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 28 (2009): 71-102.
- Sociophonetic Knowledge of Spanish and Control of Style.” Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Lotfi Sayahi and Maurice Westmoreland. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2005. Pages 16-23.
Courses Taught
- SPA 325: Phonetics
- SPA 455/555: Phonology
- SPA 382: Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Theory
- SPA 506: Latin American Spanish Dialectology
- SPA 413: Grammar and Translation
- SPA 456: Spanish Syntax