Sergio Robles-Puente, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
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Dr. Robles-Puente completed his B.A. in English Studies at the University of Deusto (Spain) and a M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics with Specialization in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Southern California with his dissertation “Prosody in Contact: Spanish in Los Angeles.”
While his main areas of study are phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics, part of his research focuses on language teaching and learning as well. He has a special interest in Spanish prosody, socio-phonetics, dialectal variation and language contact situations. For this reason, he has worked with several Spanish varieties (Peninsular, Mexican, Caribbean, Andean, among others), multiple languages (English, Japanese, Basque) and speakers with different language profiles including L1 speakers, language learners and heritage speakers. He is currently working with his colleague Dr. Jonan Katz (UCLA) on the project “The Causal Structure of Intervocalic Lenition” supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (FAIN 2234368 - PD 98-1311 Linguistics).
Dr. Robles-Puente has experience teaching courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These include Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Conversation, Spanish through Media, Readings in Spanish, Issues in the Hispanic World, Methods of Research, Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., Structure of Spanish, Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation, Spanish Prosody, Sociolinguistics, and Introduction to Structural Linguistics among others.
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