Timothy Face
· ProfessorUniversity of Minnesota · Linguistics
Active 1998–2024
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About
Timothy Face is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, specializing in Hispanic Linguistics with a focus on Spanish phonology, phonetics, prosody, and intonation. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University, earned in 2001, along with a master's degree in Hispanic Linguistics from the same institution and a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Michigan State University. His research encompasses the acquisition, development, and ultimate attainment of the Spanish sound system by native English-speaking adult learners, as well as speech perception, phonological theory, and language use in Spanish. Face has contributed extensively to the field through publications including books, edited volumes, and articles, and he is the founding editor of the journal Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. He has also organized conferences on Spanish and Portuguese second language phonology and laboratory approaches to Spanish phonology. Currently, he serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish & Portuguese Studies and has held visiting professorships, including at Brigham Young University.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Linguistics
- History
- Philosophy
- Archaeology
Selected publications
L2 Acquisition of Spanish VOT by English-Speaking Immigrants in Spain
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics · 2020 · 10 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Previous studies of native English speakers learning Spanish as a second language (L2) document compromise voice onset time (VOT) values; however, the focus has been predominantly on voiceless stops and has almost exclusively investigated beginning and intermediate learners. This study fills a gap in the literature by considering the acquisition of VOT in both voiceless and voiced Spanish stops by long-time native English-speaking residents of Spain. Overall, the results show that the L…
Ultimate attainment of Spanish rhotics by native English-speaking immigrants to Spain
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2018-01-01 · 8 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis study investigates the ultimate attainment of the second language acquisition of Spanish rhotics by a group of U.S.-born, native\n\t\t\t\t English speaking immigrants to central Spain who are long-time\n\t\t\t\t residents. While previous studies examine the second language\n\t\t\t\t acquisition of Spanish rhotics, these tend to focus on university students\n\t\t\t\t learning Spanish, and thus nothing is known about the extent to\n\t\t\t\t which advanced second language learners develop in t…
Languages · 2024-07-12 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorIntonational plateaus exist in Chilean Spanish in contexts in which they do not exist in any other variety of Spanish. Mapudungun, which has been in contact with Chilean Spanish for centuries, also has plateaus in similar contexts, although for years, the possibility of any influence of Mapudungun on Spanish has been largely dismissed. The present study examines the discourse contexts in which intonational plateaus occur in both Chilean Spanish and Mapudungun and finds that their pragmatic funct…
2016-01-29 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAl considerar la entonación, los lingüistas han propuesto una variedad de definiciones, muchas veces según el interés individual del autor. Aunque algunos han incluido en la definición otros rasgos del habla, todos están de acuerdo en que la entonación consiste principalmente (y muchos dirían exclusivamente) en la variación en la frecuencia fundamental, o la tasa de vibración de las cuerdas vocales: lo que comúnmente denominamos el tono o, coloquialmente, la melodía de la voz. Así pues, forma pa…
Production of Acoustic Correlates of Stress by L2 Spanish-Speaking Immigrants to Spain
Languages · 2023-10-30
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingLittle work has examined the L2 acquisition of Spanish stress, and especially the production of its acoustic correlates, and the work that has is largely limited to inexperienced learners. This study examines the production of stress by L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers who are highly experienced with their L2, having lived much of their adult lives as immigrants in Spain. Data were collected from the reading of a short story, an extended reading with a plot was provided so that participants would…
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Chad Howe
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Ann Pires
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
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Marta Maria
Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (India)
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Scott A. Schwenter
The Ohio State University
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Esther Markus
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
- 73 shared
Elena María
Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (India)
- 73 shared
A Tucson
Walter de Gruyter (Germany)
- 73 shared
Martin Pedro
University of Minnesota
Awards & honors
- Presidents' Prize - Linguistic Association of Canada and the…
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