Carolina González

Professor González (Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Southern California), Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, specializes in phonetics and phonology. Her research focuses on Spanish consonantal phenomena, Spanish L1 and L2 intonation, and prosody-conditioned alternations in Panoan languages (spoken in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil). In addition, she is currently writing a book on how to invent languages, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Research Interests

Phonology

Phonetics

Prosody

Laboratory phonology

L2 phonological acquisition

Syntax-phonology interface

Morph-phonology

Language invention

Courses Taught

Spanish phonology

Spanish phonetics

Acoustic phonetics of Spanish

Acquisition of Spanish phonology

History of the Spanish Language

Sounds of the Worlds' Languages

Patterns of Sounds

Language Birth, Language Death

Seminar on Language Invention

Selected Publications

• GONZÁLEZ, C. In press. Inventing Languages: A Practical Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. & Lara Reglero. In press. Mirativity in wh-in-situ questions in Spanish. In Susana Rodríguez Rosique (ed.), Expressing surprise at the crossroads. Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter. 22 pages.
• GONZÁLEZ, C., Susan Cox & Gabrielle Isgar. 2024. Phonation Patterns in Spanish Vowels: Spectral and Spectrographic Analysis. Languages 9(6), 214, 1-18.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. & Lara Reglero. 2023. Intonation Correlates of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-in-situ Questions in Spanish. Journal of Linguistics 59. 1-22.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. & Lara Reglero. 2023. Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions. In B. Bullock, C. Russi & A. J. Toribio (eds.), A Half Century of Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Berlin: Language Science Press. 265-293.
• GONZÁLEZ, C., Christine Weissglass & Daniel Bates. 2022. Creaky Voice and Prosodic Boundaries in Spanish: An Acoustic Study. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 15. 33-65.
• GONZÁLEZ, C., Lara Reglero & Nerea Delgado. 2022. The intonation of narrow focus statements in Basque Spanish. In I. Barberia & A. Iribar (eds.), Papers on Basque Linguistics in Honor of Jon Andoni Franco Elorza. Bilbao: University of Deusto. 339-360.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. & Lara Reglero. 2020. The intonation of yes-no questions in Spanish. In J. Colomina-Almiñana & S. Sessarego (eds.), Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond. Structure, Context and Development. New York: Routledge. 223-241.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. 2020. Consonant assimilation. In S. Colina & F. Martínez-Gil (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology. New York: Routledge. 84-99.
• Brandl, Anel, GONZÁLEZ, C., & Amy Bustin. 2020. The Development of Intonation in L2 Spanish: A Perceptual Study. In A. Morales-Front, M. Ferreira, R. Leow & C. Sanz (eds.), Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 12-31.
• GONZÁLEZ, C. & L. Reglero. 2020. The licensing of wh-in-situ questions: Intonational evidence from Spanish. In A. Morales-Front, M. Ferreira, R. Leow & C. Sanz (eds.), Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 54-73.
• Mohamed, Sherez, GONZÁLEZ, C., & Antje Muntendam. 2019. Arabic-Spanish language contact in Puerto Rico: A case of glottal stop epenthesis. Languages 4. 1-22.