Miquel Simonet

About

Miquel Simonet is a Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is a phonetician and phonologist working within the tradition of Laboratory Phonology, employing instrumental phonetics and experimental psycholinguistics to investigate phonological knowledge, mental representations of sounds, and sound patterns. His research focuses on the phonetics-phonology interface, phonetic and phonological variation and change, and the effects of bilingualism, second language learning, and societal language contact on phonetic behavior and phonological knowledge. Dr. Simonet has published in numerous scholarly journals and has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Phonetics and Applied Psycholinguistics. He is actively involved in editorial boards of several journals and has held leadership roles within his department, including Director of Graduate Studies and main graduate advisor for students in Hispanic Linguistics. He has chaired or co-chaired multiple PhD dissertations and serves on dissertation committees at various institutions. His academic background includes a PhD in Romance Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, obtained in 2008. Since arriving at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor, he has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015 and to Professor in 2023. His research and teaching interests include phonetic and phonological variation, laboratory phonology, and bilingual…

Research topics

• Psychology
• Linguistics
• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Geography
• Philosophy
• Cognitive psychology

Selected publications

• Increased language co-activation leads to enhanced cross-linguistic phonetic convergence

  International Journal of Bilingualism · 2019-02-10 · 59 citations

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  Purpose: This study investigates the effects of bilingual language modes (or settings) on the speech production patterns of a group of early Catalan/Spanish bilinguals from Majorca, Spain. Our main research question was as follows: are bilingual speech patterns modulated by the level of (co-)activation of a bilingual’s two languages? Design: Bilingual participants were classified as a function of their linguistic experience (or dominance), from Catalan- to Spanish-dominant. Subsequently, we reco…

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• Language dominance does not always predict cross-linguistic interactions in bilingual speech production

  Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism · 2019-07-16 · 41 citations

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  Abstract The present study describes the results of two experiments that analyze the effects of language dominance on Catalan/Spanish bilingual speech production. We examined the acoustics of the Catalan [a]~[ə] alternation (a phonological process induced by lexical stress) and of the Catalan mid vowel contrasts /e/-/ɛ/ and /o/-/ɔ/ (two phonemic contrasts) in the speech of Catalan- vs. Spanish-dominant early Catalan/Spanish bilinguals from Majorca (Spain). The results indicate that, contrary to…

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• Perceptual categorization and bilingual language modes: Assessing the double phonemic boundary in early and late bilinguals

  Journal of Phonetics · 2018-08-10 · 34 citations

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• Language dominance and the perception of the Majorcan Catalan /ʎ/−/ʒ/ contrast: Asymmetrical phonological representations

  International Journal of Bilingualism · 2017-02-02 · 30 citations

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  Purpose: Bilinguals tend to experience “difficulties” with contrasts specific to their nondominant language. This study investigates the discrimination of the /ʎ/-/ʒ/ contrast of Majorcan Catalan by two groups of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals differing in their linguistic experience, Catalan- versus Spanish-dominant. Methodology: Participants completed a categorical discrimination task to examine their perception of the following pairwise comparisons, relevant to assessing the perceptibility of the…

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• Editorial: Phonology in the Bilingual and Bidialectal Lexicon

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2017-04-04 · 18 citations

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  One critical step when trying to comprehend a spoken message is to identify the words that the speaker intended. To recognize spoken words, listeners continuously attempt to map the incoming speech signal onto lexical representations stored in memory (McClelland and Elman, 1986; Norris, 1994): Words that partially overlap with the signal are activated until the lexical candidate that best matches the input wins over its competitors, a process known as lexical competition. Models of spoken-word r…

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Frequent coauthors

• Flavia Adani

  Freie Universität Berlin

  224 shared

• Rachel Hayes‐Harb

  University of Utah

  222 shared

• Annie Tremblay

  Lallemand (Canada)

  215 shared

• Patrick Proctor

  215 shared

• Shelley Tong

  University of Arizona

  134 shared

• Martha Crago

  98 shared

• Carla Contemori

  The University of Texas at El Paso

  96 shared

• Seth Wiener

  96 shared

Education

• PhD in Spanish (Romance Linguistics), Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  2008

• MA in Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics), Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2003

• Llicenciatura en Filologia Catalana, Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General

  Universitat de les Illes Balears

  2000

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