Faculty Detail Page Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

Sonia Colina Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spanish Linguistics, Phonology, Translation

621-3798
scolina@email.arizona.edu
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Position: Associate Professor

Course Information

Current Courses:

Office: ML 554

Hours: On sabbatical (Fall 07)

Courses Taught: SPAN 340, SPAN 459, SPAN 580, SPAN 582

Current Work in Progress

Spanish Phonology: A syllabic perspective (monograph).

Publications since 2001

Books:
2003. Translation Teaching: From Research To The Classroom. New York, San Francisco: McGraw Hill.

2007. Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology (edited volume, with Fernando Martínez-Gil). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Articles:
Articles in Refereed Journals

The phonetics and phonology of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician. Lingua. 2006. 116 (8): 1245-1273. With Manuel Díaz-Campos.

Double-Plurals in Dominican Spanish: an Optimality-Theoretic Approach. Linguistics. 44 (3): 541-568. 2006.

Parental education in the Spanish-speaking community: A look at LEP guidelines and translated educational materials? Bilingual Research Journal, 28 (3): 299-317. With Julie Sykes. 2004.

Diminutives in Spanish: A morphophonological account. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 22(2): 45-88. 2003.

The Status of Word-Final [e] in Spanish. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 22(1): 87-107. 2003.

"Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies". The Translator 8 (1): 1-24. 2002.

In Edited volumes:

Optimality-theoretic advances in accounting for Spanish syllable structure. In Fernando Martínez-Gil, & Colina, Sonia. eds. Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2007: 172-204.

Optimality theory and socio-phonological variation: an analysis of formal approaches and the derivation of the social dimension of language. In Martínez-Gil, Fernando & Sonia Colina. eds. Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2007: 424-446.

Full Interpretation and the PF Interface: Design Constraints on Language Mixing. In MacSwan, Jeff, ed. Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching. Cambridge: MIT Press. With J. MacSwan. In press.

Output-to-output Correspondence and the Emergence of the Unmarked in Spanish Plural Formation. In Montreuil, Jean-Pierre, ed. New Analyses in Romance Linguistics, (Selected papers from the 35th LSRL). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2006. 49-63.

Spanish Second Language Acquisition: Applications to the Teaching of Professional Translation (and Interpretation). In Salaberry , Rafael and Barbara Lafford. Eds. 2006. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: From Research to Practice. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP. 213-234.

Intervocalic Velar Nasals in Galician: Phonetic evidence for multiple syllabic affiliation. In Frota, Sonia, Vigario, Marina, Freitas, Maria João. Eds. 2005. Prosodies (Selected papers from the Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia Conference, 2003). Phonetics and Phonology Series. Mouton de Gruyter. 269-285. With Manuel Díaz-Campos.

Intervocalic velar nasals in Galician. In Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance, eds. 2004. Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 103-120.

Towards an Empirically-based Translation Pedagogy. In Baer, Brian, Geoff Koby, Fanny Arango Keeth, and Sharon Bell, eds. 2002. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy, American Translators Association Monograph Series, Vol. XII. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 29-59.

An account of inter and intradialectal variation in Spanish /s/ aspiration. In Lee, James, Kimberly Geeslin and J. Clancy Clements, eds. 2002. Structure Meaning and Acquisition in Spanish. Papers from the 4th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium . 230-243. (Selected papers)