Associate Professor of Spanish
- Publications:
- Weakening Processes in the History of Spanish Consonants (1990);
- co-editor, Linguistic Studies in Medieval Spanish (1991).
- Articles in Romance Philology, Hispanic Linguistics, Journal of Hispanic Research, Hispanic Review.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, and of the Advisory Board of Romance Philology.
- Bibliographer in Hispanic Linguistics for the MLA Romance Linguistics Discussion Group.
- Courses regularly taught:
- Spanish phonetics,
- Phonology (historical and synchronic),
- Modern Spanish syntax,
- Peninsular dialectology,
- History of the Spanish language,
- Old Spanish.
- Courses less frequently taught:
- Romance philology and linguistics,
- Application of computer technology to philological and linguistic research.
- Research interests:
- The linguistic development of Spanish, particularly phonology and lexis;
- Ibero-Romance dialectology;
- Application of sociolinguistic theory to historical development.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
1018 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706, USA
Tel. 608 262 4712 (Office), 608 262 2093 (Office)
email: raharris@macc.wisc.edu
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