Join us for another Brownbag Lunch Series Presentation. Anna Babel (Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese) will be giving a talk on “Aspirates and Ejectives: ‘Foreign’ Sounds in Cruceño Valley Spanish, Bolivia”
Anna Babel is a sociolinguist and a linguistic anthropologist, with specific interests in contact linguistics and Andean Spanish. Her research draws on quantitative and qualitative data from a Quechua-Spanish contact region in central Bolivia. Dr. Babel investigates how linguistic features are linked to social representations, and the way that complex social factors are integrated into language structure. Dr. Babel holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Michigan. A former Peace Corps volunteer, she has conducted field research on Quechua-Spanish language and cultural contact in a community in central Bolivia for more than a decade.
