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Dr. M. Stanley Whitley


Office: Greene 531
Phone: (336) 758-5362
E-mail: whitley@wfu.edu
www.wfu.edu/~whitley


Education

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University, 1974
  • M.A., Linguistics, Cornell University, 1973
  • B.A., Spanish, Wake Forest University, 1970

Research Interests

  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Spanish grammar, history of Spanish
  • Second language acquisition

Courses Taught

  • Spanish 319: Spanish Grammar and Composition
  • Spanish 321: The Rise of Spanish (History of Spanish)
  • Spanish 322: Spanish Pronunciation and Dialect Variation
  • Linguistics/Anthropology 150: Introduction to Linguistics
  • Linguistics 310: Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Departmental Activities

  • Spanish Placement Appeals Officer
  • Linguistics Program Coordinator and Advisor

Representative Publications

  • Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach , with Richard Teschner, Georgetown University Press, 2004
  • “Lexical Errors and the Acquisition of Derivational Morphology in Spanish,” Hispania 87 (2004): 163-172
  • The Phonicon: A multimedia digital encyclopedia of the sounds of the world's languages, CD-ROM, SIL International, 2003.
  •  “Rhotic representation: Problems and proposals,” Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33/1 (2003):81-86.
  • Spanish/English Contrasts , 2nd edition (expanded and updated), Georgetown University Press, 2002
  • Gramática para la composición , with Luis González, Georgetown University Press, 2000 2007, 2nd edition, with Instructor’s Manual.
  • "Psych Verbs: Transitivity Adrift," Hispanic Linguistics 10 (1999):115-153.

 

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