AMBER GALVANO
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Research Program:

My research aims to contribute to several broad topics:
  • The phonetics-phonology interface:
    • How abstract and discrete is the most useful model of the phonetics-phonology interface? To what extent, and at what level, do articulatory, social, and cognitive factors respectively constrain such a model? How empirically traceable (i.e. concerning intra- and inter-speaker variation) must this model be?
  • Speech & sexuality:
    • How might sexual orientation function as a factor in sociolinguistic analysis, and how might it interact with gender & gender normativity?
  • Sound change:
    • How does the way marginalized speech communities are positioned, both geographically and ideologically, affect sound change?
    • What is the ideal framework for capturing the relationship between synchronic and diachronic variation?

Academic Publications:

Accepted (March 2023). Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen and Micha Fischer. Journal of Phonetics.

​December 2022. Sociophonetic Investigation of the Spanish Alveolar Trill /r/ in Two Canonical-Trill Varieties. With Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley. Language and Speech.
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Under review. Perceptions of speaker origin and social characteristics of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. With Nicholas Henriksen, Micha Fischer, Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya, Zoe Phillips, Natalie Dakki, Ellie Maly, Sarah Khansa, Tommy Wiaduck, Jessica Czapla, Vidhya Premkumar, and Stepan Topouzian. Journal of Linguistic Geography.

Public Scholarship:

2020. Socially Distant Yet Intellectually Close: One class’ guide to reimagining pedagogy in the age of COVID-19. With Zoe Phillips and Ellie Maly. Inside Higher Ed. [link]

Presentations:

June 2023. Quantifying the Lobi vowel space. [Paper presentation]​. ACAL54.

June 2023. /st/-production in Spanish: A cross-dialectal continuum of sound change. [Paper presentation]. CIFE 2023.

May 2023.  A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. WCCFL41.

April 2023. A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. CLS59. (Accepted but declined)

March 2023.  A Q-theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. Phorum (UCB Phonetics, Phonology, and Psycholinguistics forum) invited talk.
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November 2022 (post-poned due to strike). Sounds of English. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 10).

November 2022 (post-poned due to strike).  Intro to speech & sexuality. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 5).

August 2021. Perceptions of speaker origin and social attributes of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.

June 2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen. PaPE 2021.

2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.

2021. Phonemic Voiceless Stops in Western Andalusian Spanish: The confluence of post-aspiration and intervocalic voicing. With Nicholas Henriksen. MidPhon25. [pdf]

2020. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Undergraduate honors thesis defense.

Media:

2020. Episode 28: Zoe, Amber and Ellie. With Zoe Phillips and Ellie Maly. My Education. [link to part 1] [link to part 2]
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