Brandon M. A. Rogers [email protected] http://brandonmarogers.weebly.com/
Education
2012-2016 Ph.D. of Philosophy in Hispanic Linguistics, May 2016 The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Dissertation title: “When Theory and Reality Collide: Exploring Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateaus” Committee: Timothy L. Face (adviser), Carol A. Klee, Rajiv G. Rao, Francisco Ocampo
2010-2012 Master of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics, April 2012 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Thesis title: Vowel Quality and Language Contact in Miami-Cuban Spanish. Committee: Scott M. Alvord (adviser), Willis Fails, Rob Smead
2005-2010 Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Translation and Interpretation, April 2010 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Relevant Work History
2020-present Assistant professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University
2016-2020 Assistant professor of Spanish at Ball State University
2018-2020 Spanish-language medical interpreter in Indiana with Luna Language Services
2012-2016 Graduate Spanish instructor at the University of Minnesota.
2009-2012 Supervising Linguistic Editor, Vox Frontera Inc. Performed acoustic analysis on continuous speech for automatic speech recognition developing.
2010-2012 Graduate Spanish instructor for beginning level Spanish classes at Brigham Young University.
2008-2010 Spanish-language medical interpreter for Linguistica International in Utah
2006-2009 Spanish instructor for BYU Missionary Training Center.
2008-2008 Translator for BYU-TV International
Languages
English: Native Spanish: Superior (ACTFL) Mapudungun: Intermediate high speaking, writing, and reading Portuguese: Intermediate high speaking, writing, and reading
Publications
Edited volumes
Rogers Brandon M.A. & Figueroa, Mauricio (eds.) (2021). Chilean Spanish Linguistics: Studies on variation, innovation, contact, and identity. Vernon Press: Wilmington.
Peer reviewed articles
Mena, Daniela; Figueroa, Mauricio; Salamanca, Gastón; Rogers, Brandon M. A., (2024). Evidencia acústica y estadística de solo un alófono para la sexta vocal del mapudungun hablado en Alto Biobío (Onomazein)
Rogers, B. M. A., & Bolyanatz, M. (2023). El debilitamiento de /s/ codal en Santiago y Concepción, Chile. Boletín De Filología, 57(2), pp. 367–398.
Rogers, Brandon M. A. (2020). La transferencia pragmática a través del contacto lingüístico: las mesetas entonativas del castellano chileno y el mapudungun como mecanismo de extensión de foco. Boletín de Filología (LV)1, 77-114.
Rogers, Brandon M. A. (2020) The state of Spanish /s/ variation in Concepción, Chile: Linguistic and social trends. Open Linguistics (6)1, 132-153.
Mena, D. Figueroa, Mauricio., Rogers, Brandon M. A., and Salmanca, Gastón. (2019). Losing one allophone at a time: An acoustic and statistical study on Mapudungun’s sixth vowel. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1426-1430). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association
Rogers, Brandon M.A. & Mirisis, Christina S. (2018). Voiceless stop lenition as linguistic and social phenomena in Concepción, Chile. Borealis: An International Journal in Hispanic Linguistics 7(2), 187-215.
Klee, Carol A., Rogers, Brandon M. A., Dietz, Lindsey & Caravedo, Rocío (2018). Measuring /s/ variation among younger generations in a migrant settlement in Lima, Peru. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (11)1: 29-57.
Rogers, Brandon M.A. (2016) The influence of linguistic and social variables in the spirantization of intervocalic /b,d,g/ in Concepción, Chile. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 9(1), 207-237.
Rogers, Brandon M.A. & Alvord, Scott M. (2014) The gradience of spirantization: Factors affecting L2 production of intervocalic Spanish [β̞,ð̞,ɣ̞]. Spanish in Context 11(3), 402-424.
Alvord, Scott M. & Rogers Brandon M.A. (2014) Miami-Cuban Spanish vowels in contact. Sociolinguistic Studies 8.1, 140-170.
Rogers, Brandon M.A. (2013) The extent of tonal events: Intonational hat patterns in Chilean Spanish. Estudios de Fonética Experimental 22, 171-192.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Klee, Carol A., Brandon M.A. Rogers, Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias, and James Ramsburg (2022). Intervocalic /s/ Voicing in the Andean Spanish of Southern Peru. In Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact, Mark Waltermire & Bove Kate (eds.). New York: Routledge.
Figueroa, Mauricio; Rogers, Brandon M.A.; and Fuentes, Darío (2021). Evidence of dialectal divergence in the Chilean Spanish vowel system in Brandon M.A. Rogers & Figueroa Mauricio (eds.) Chilean Spanish Linguistics: Studies on variation, innovation, contact, and identity (pp.193-226). Vernon Press: Wilmington.
Rogers, Brandon M.A.; Rao, Rajiv G.; & Burner, Matthew (2020). Exploring extended focus and meaning in Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours in Juan J. Colomina-Alimñana & Sessarego Sandro (eds.). Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond. Routledge: New York.
Rogers, Brandon M. A., Scott M. Alvord, & Doug Porter, (2020). The effect of study, dialect, and extended time abroad on the L2 acquisition of Spanish speech rhythm: Results and methodological concerns. in Scott M. Alvord & Greg Thompson (eds.) Spanish in the US: Attitudes and variation, (pp.111-136). Routledge: New York.
Rogers, Brandon, M.A & Klee, Carol A. (2020). Social Change and /s/ Variation in Concepción, Chile and Lima, Peru: The Role of Dialect and Sociolectal Contact in Luis Ortiz, Guzzardo Tamargo Rosa E., & González-Rivera Melvin (eds.), Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Perspectives, (pp.85-114). John Benjamins: Philadelphia.
Rogers, Brandon M. A (2020). Exploring Focus Extension in Mapudungun and Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateau Patterns: The Case for Pragmatic Transfer through Language Contact, in Rao Rajiv G. (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain (pp.294-323). John Benjamins: Philadelphia.
Bolyanatz Mariška A. & Rogers, Brandon M.A. (2019). Social evaluation of intervocalic /k/ in Chilean Spanish. In Whitney Chappell (ed.) Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, (pp. 211-238). John Benjamins: Philadelphia.
Rogers, Brandon M.A. & Alvord, Scott M. (2019) Laterals in Language Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/, in Martínez Wilfredo and González Rivera, Melvin (eds.), Dialects from Tropical Islands: Research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States, (pp.54-70). Routledge: New York.
Rogers, Brandon M. A. & Alvord, Scott M. (2018) Miami Cuban vowels. In Alejandro Cuza (ed.), Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact and Change (pp. 3-21). Georgetown University Press: Washington D.C.
Manuscripts under review
Rogers, Brandon M.A. and Face Timothy L. (under review). Pragmatics bridging typological gaps: The case for pragmatic transfer of extended focus from Mapudungun into Chilean Spanish (Languages)
Linguistic and Extralinguistic Factors that Condition /s/ Variation in Lima, Peru: Migration and Language Change: Paper co-authored with Carol A. Klee to be submitted to the journal “Spanish in Context”.
Manuscripts in preparation
Socioprosodic variation in Concepción Chile: Speech rhythm. Single authored paper.
Intervocalic /d/ spirantization in Peruvian Spanish. Co-authored paper
Mapudungun speech rhythm. Single authored paper
Chilean Spanish speech rhythm: observations and methodological challenges. Single authored paper.
Speakers’ Perceptions of Extended Focus: Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateaus: Co-authored paper
Comparative vowel spaces of three varieties of Mapudungun. Single-authored paper
A comparative study of Mapudungun and K’ich’e codeswitching. Co-authored paper
Conference Presentations
The influence of linguistic and social factors in the spirantization of intervocalic /d/ in Peruvian Spanish. Paper presented with Carol A Klee, Christina Mirisis, and James Ramsburg at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Provo UT, October 12-14, 2023.
Pragmatics bridging typological gaps: The case for pragmatic transfer of extended focus from Mapudungun into Chilean Spanish. Paper presented with Timothy L. Face at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Provo UT, October 12-14, 2023.
Need for Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture for Health Professionals Curriculum. Poster presented with Mcdaniel Kyle E.; Billings, Adrian; Melhem, Linley; and Pereira, Carmen at the 1st Annual West Texas Health Disparities Research Symposium, Lubbock, TX, April 27-28, 2024
El debilitamiento de /s/ codal en Santiago y Concepción, Chile. Paper presented With Mariska Bolyanatz at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (Online), November 3-5, 2022.
Evidence of dialectal divergence in the Chilean Spanish vowel system. Paper presented with Mauricio Figueroa and Darío Fuentes at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest virtual conference, September 24-26 2020.
The state of Spanish /s/ in Concepción, Chile: Linguistic and social trends. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, El Paso, TX, October 24-26, 2019.
The state of Spanish /s/ in Concepción, Chile: Linguistic and social trends. Poster co-presented with Rajiv G. Rao at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, Eugene, OR, October 10-12, 2019.
Losing one allophone at a time: An acoustic and statistical study on Mapudungun’s sixth vowel. Paper co-presented with Daniela Mena and Mauricio Figueroa at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia, August 4-7, 2019.
Focus Extension and in Mapudungun and Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateaus: The Case for Pragmatic Transfer through Language Contact. Paper presented at 2018 Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America, Columbus, OH, October 28-28, 2018.
Biological codes and extended focus: Examining speaker-driven and pragmatically-based analyses of Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours. Paper co-presented with Rajiv G. Rao and Matthew Burner at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Austin, TX, October 25-27, 2018
Social Change and /s/ Variation in Concepción, Chile and Lima, Peru: The Role of Dialect and Sociolectal Contact. Paper co-presented with Carol A. Klee at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47, New York, NY, October,18-21 2018.
Stop Reduction as a Social Phenomenon and Potential Motivator of Sound Change in Concepción, Chile. Paper presented at the 9th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Queens, NY, April 4-7, 2018.
Linguistic and Extralinguistic Factors that Condition /s/ Variation in Lima, Peru: Migration and Language Change. Paper co-presented with Carol A. Klee at the 9th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Queens, NY, April 4-7, 2018.
The Effect of Level of Instruction, Dialect, and Extended Time Abroad on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Speech Rhythm: Results and Methodological Concerns. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord and Doug Porter at the 10th Anniversary of Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology, Bloomington IN, February 23-24, 2018.
An Acoustic Analysis of L2 Acquisition of Portuguese Word-final “am” and “ao”: Speech Type and Learner Progress in Apparent Time. Paper Co-presented with Ana Anderson at the 10th Anniversary of Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology, Bloomington IN, February 23-24, 2018.
L2 Spanish rhythm: The effect of study and time abroad on the acquisition of Spanish speech rhythm. Paper co-presented with Doug Porter and Scott Alvord at the 26th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 11th Conference on Spanish in Contact with other Languages, Provo, UT April 6-8, 2007.
Voiceless stop lenition and reduction as social phenomena in Concepción, Chile. Paper co-presented with Christina Mirisis at the 8th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Recinto Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, April 13-16, 2016.
A new statsitical approach to /s/ variation: Migrant Neighborhoods in Lima, Peru. Paper co-presented with Carol A. Klee, Lindsey R. Dietz, and Rocío Caravedo at the 8th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Recinto Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, April 13-16, 2016.
Age, Gender, and Sociophonetic Variation of Intervocalic /b,d,g/ in Concepcion, Chile. Paper presented at (Up)rooted & (Un)moored: Discourses of Belonging in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics: 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Minneapolis, MN, April 10-11, 2015.
Quantifying L2 Spanish-speaker production and acquisition of Portuguese word-final “-am” and “-ão”: An instrumental approach. Paper co-presented with Ana Anderson at (Up)rooted & (Un)moored: Discourses of Belonging in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics: 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Minneapolis, MN, April 10-11, 2015.
Phonological stability and identity amidst intense language contact: Miami-Cuban Laterals. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord at the 25th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 10th Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, New York, NY, March 26-29 2015.
Spirantization and compensatory occlusion of voiced stops following elided /s/ in Concepción, Chile. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. West Lafayette, IN, November 13-16, 2014.
Social variables and their relationship to spirantization of intervocalic [β̞, d̞, ɣ̞̞] in Concepción, Chile: A sociophonetic instrumental approach. Paper presented at 19th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. Madison, WI, September 12-14, 2014.
Liquids in Language Contact: Miami-Cuban Spanish and English /l/. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord at Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 7. Aix-en-Provence, France, September 3-5, 2014.
Social and Linguistic Factors Contributing to /s/ Elision in Concepción, Chile. Paper presented at Power, Prestige, and Periphery: University of Minnesota Graduate Conference in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. Minneapolis, MN, April 11-12, 2014.
Dialect Convergence and /s/ Variation in Migrant Neighborhoods in Lima, Peru. Paper co-presented with Carol Klee and Rocio Caravedo at the 7th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Madison, WI, April 3-5 2014.
La variante /s/ final más /n/ intrusa en el español de Guatemala. Poster co-presented with Luz M. Hernández at the 7th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Madison, WI, April 3-5, 2014.
The Extent of Tonal Events: Intonational Plateau Patterns in Chilean Spanish. Paper presented at the XXIX Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, LA, February 27-March 1, 2014.
Factors affecting the Miami-Cuban Spanish and English Vowel Systems. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord at the 24th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 9th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. McAllen, TX, March 6-9, 2013.
Frequency Effects on Miami-Cuban Vowel Production. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Cedar City, UT, April 20-22, 2012.
Factors Influencing the Acquisition of Spanish Rhotics. Paper co-presented with Ixchel Zarco (First Author), Scott M. Alvord, and Rob Martinsen, and Joshua Tanner in the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Boston, MA, March 24-27, 2012.
Factors Influencing the Acquisition of Pronunciation: Culture, Motivation, and Level of Instruction. Paper co-presented with Joshua Tanner (First Author), Scott M. Alvord, Rob Martinsen, and Ixchel Zarco in the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Boston, MA, March 24-27, 2012.
Spirantization of L2 Spanish /b,d,g/: Factors Influencing a Gradient Phenomenon. Poster presented at Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology Conference. Colombia, SC, February 16-19, 2012.
Vowel Quality and Language Contact in Miami-Cuban Spanish. Paper co-presented with Scott M. Alvord in the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Athens, GA, October 6-9, 2011.
Teaching
Course Number Title
Texas Tech University Spanish 4377 “Language Contact in the Spanish-speaking World” CMLL Certificate Translation and Interpretation CMLL 3303 “Introduction to Translation and Interpretation” Spanish 5385 “Spanish in Contact with Other Languages" Spanish 3308 “How the Spanish Language Works: An Intro to Hispanic Linguistics Spanish 4309 “Special topics: Spanish Translation and Interpretation Spanish 3305 “Intermediate Grammar” Spanish 5385 “Translation Theory and Practice” Spanish 2302 “Spanish II”
Ball State University Spanish 201 “Intermediate Spanish 1” Spanish 202 “Intermediate Spanish 2” Spanish 404 “Spanish in Contact with other Languages” Spanish 338 “Spanish for the Professions: Medical Spanish and Interpretation” Spanish 340 “Intro to Hispanic Linguistics” Spanish 337 “Spanish Phonetics” Spanish 301 “Conversation and Composition”
University of Minnesota Spanish 3107w “Intro to Hisp. Ling” Spanish 3015 “Spanish Comp. and Comm.” Spanish 1004 “4th Semester Spanish” (online) Spanish 1022 “Alternate 2nd Semester Spanish”
Brigham Young University Spanish 105 “University Spanish 1” Spanish 102 “Foundational Spanish 2” Spanish 101 “Foundational Spanish 1
Guest Presentations
La transferencia pragmática a través del contacto lingüístico: las mesetas entonativas del castellano chileno y el mapudungun como mecanismo de extensión de foco. Invited presentation . Invited presentation at La Universidad de Concepción (UDEC), Concepción, Chile, January 15, 2020.
La lenición de las oclusivas sordas /ptk/ como fenómeno sociofonético en el castellano hablado en Concepción, Chile: Métodos e implicaciones. Invited presentation at La Universidad de Concepción (UDEC), Concepción, Chile August 9, 2017.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1plW_RS-4&t=465s
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78JvAdCIqQ&t=3s
Sustainability Committee, Ball State University (2016-2019)
Graduate student representative, University of Minnesota (2015)
Thesis Committees
Julia Millán Gómez, MA thesis (2023): El uso variable del artículo definido con los nombres propios en distintas variedades del español peninsular (Reader)
Sara Cantera Viudez, MA thesis (2023): Variación en las formas de tratamiento (tú y usted) en las variedades del español castellano, andaluz y canario (Reader)
Manuscript Referee for Journals
2023 Languages 2022 Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2021 Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Hispania 2019 Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2018 Spanish in Context 2018 Heritage Language Journal 2017 Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 2016 Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 2016 Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2014 Sociolinguistic Studies 2013 Verba
Awards and Grants
2016 Ball State ASPiRE start-up grant ($2,500)
2015 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($23,000)
2013 SPPT Summer Research Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies ($4,000)
2013 Travel Award from the University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. ($500) for the 24th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 9th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. McAllen, TX, March 6-9, 2013.
2012 The 2012 BYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese Outstanding Graduate Student award
2011 Graduate Mentoring in Research Award, BYU ($4,000)
2011 Graduate Student Award from the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, October 6-9, Athens, GA.