Born in Moaña, Pontevedra Province, Galicia, Spain. Lived in Germany and England Assistant lector at Salford University, Manchester, England Studied at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Worked as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and The Ohio State University Currently an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University.

Recent Publications

2016. “El fonema I: las bases del contraste en la materia fónica.” In Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica (Vol. 1, Part II),  ed. by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. London & New York: Routledge Publishing Co., 595-606.

2016. “El fonema II: del análisis fonémico al morfofonémico.” In Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica (Vol. 1, Part II), ed. by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. London & New York: Routledge Publishing Company, 607-619.

2016. “Las vocales I: características fonético-fonológicas y consideraciones tipológicas.” In Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica (Vol. 2, Part 1), ed. by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. London & New York: Routledge Publishing Company, 174-185.

2016. “Las vocales II: los fonemas vocálicos del español.” In Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica (Vol. 2, Part 1), ed. by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. London & New York: Routledge Publishing Company, 186-197.

2016. “Syllable merger in Chicano Spanish: a constraint-based analysis.” In The Syllable and Stress: Studies in Honor of James W. Harris, ed. by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 139-186.