Timothy Face

[email protected]

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

203E Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Professor,

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Linguistics

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2001
MA: Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1998
BA: Spanish, Michigan State University, 1995

Specialties

Spanish Second Language Phonology
Laboratory Phonology
Phonetics
Spanish Prosody
Spanish Intonation
Phonological Theory
Spanish Grammar and Language Structure

Publications

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Publications

. BOOKS / EDITED VOLUMES / EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS.
Face, T. (2024). Castilian Spanish Spontaneous Speech: A Phonetic Analysis of its Segments. Lincom.
Face, T., & Armstrong, M. (2024). Prosody in Shared Linguistic Spaces of the Spanish-Speaking World. Languages.
Face, T. (2011). Perception of Castilian Spanish Intonation: Implications for Intonational Phonology. Lincom.
Face, T. (2008). The Intonation of Castilian Spanish Declaratives and Absolute Interrogatives. Lincom.
Face, T. (2008). Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish. Cascadilla Press.
Face, T., & Klee, C. (2006). Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Klee, C., & Face, T. (2006). Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Face, T. (2004). Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology. Mouton de Gruyter.
Face, T. (2002). Intonational Marking of Contrastive Focus in Madrid Spanish. Lincom.
. RECENT ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS.
Rogers, B., & Face, T. (2024). Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateaus and their Pragmatic Functions: A Case of Contact with Mapudungun. Languages, 9, 246.
Face, T. (2023). Production of Acoustic Correlates of Stress by L2 Spanish-Speaking Immigrants to Spain. Languages, 8, 258.
Face, T. (2021). Ultimate Attainment of Spanish Laterals by Native English-Speaking Immigrants in Spain. Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition, 9(1), 167-180.
Face, T. (2021). What does advanced L2 pronunciation look like? Evidence from the ultimate attainment of Spanish consonants. Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, Challenges, and Possibilities, 144-169.
Face, T., & Menke, M. (2020). L2 Acquisition of Spanish VOT by English-Speaking Immigrants in Spain. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13, 361-389.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Founding Editor, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2007 - present
Founder of conference series, Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (with Kimberly Geeslin)
Founder of conference series, Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology
Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University, Winter 2024

Research

Acquisition, development, and ultimate attainment of the Spanish sound system by native English-speaking adult learners
Spanish intonation
Speech perception as evidence in phonology
Spanish phonology from the perspective of language use

Awards

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Courses

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Courses

Span 3107W - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Span 3701 - The Structure of Spanish: Phonology
Span 3707 - Linguistic Accuracy through Translation
Span 3730 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics
Span 3972W - Senior Seminar
Span 5721 - Spanish Laboratory Phonology
Span 5930 - Topics in Ibero-Romance Linguistics
Span 8710 - Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Phonology