Associate Professor of Spanish
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Sonia Barnes completed her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics in 2013 at The Ohio State University, specializing in sociolinguistics, phonetics/phonology and language contact. She joined ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in 2013, where she teaches a variety of courses in Spanish Language and Linguistics.
Education
Ph.D. 2013; Ohio State University, Columbus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Courses Taught
- Linguistics
- Spanish Phonetics
- Spanish in the United States
- Sociolinguistics
- Structure of Spanish from a Linguistic Perspective
- Advanced Communication in Spanish
Research Interests
Her current research explores the linguistic and social factors that govern language variation and how speakers use this variation to construct their identities. She is interested in phonetic and morphophonological variation that occurs in situations of language contact, particularly that of Asturian and Spanish in Asturias (Spain), and Spanish and English in the U.S. In her research she examines the social meaning attached to different language variants and the role of linguistic variation in the construction of place-based identity.