Silvina Bongiovanni

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I am Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.

My research lies at the intersection of Hispanic Linguistics, phonetics and phonology, and sociolinguistics. I focus on variation in pronunciation—what it reveals about language structure and how it drives patterns of variation and change. Spanish, with its broad geographic distribution and dialectal diversity, is central to my work. I also study second language phonology, especially how learner production and perception inform theory and pedagogy.

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Acoustic investigation of anticipatory vowel nasalization in a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish

Covariation between nasal consonant and anticipatory vowel nasalization: Evidence from a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish

Probing syllabic affiliation of word-initial and word-medial consonant sequences in north-central Peninsular Spanish, with Karthik Durvasula

Updates

Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure - June 13, 2025

New Paper with Karthik Durvasula Published in Phonetica - March 10, 2025

New Paper Published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics - September 6, 2024