Stacey Hanson
MA in Spanish, Florida State University
BS in Psychology and Spanish, Florida State University
I am a PhD candidate of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington.
My current research focuses on second language perception and production of geographically and socially constrained phones. Specifically, I am interested in how the intersection of learners' perception and production impacts phonetic and phonological development of second language sounds . Additionally, I am interested in the effects of study abroad and individual differences on acquisition of additional languages.
Dissertation Research
My dissertation explores the acoustic and attitudinal perception and phonetic production of the geographically indexed interdental fricative /θ/ among second language (L2) Spanish speakers studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, advanced L2 Spanish speakers permanently living in Spain, and Native Castilian Spanish speakers. Although previous studies investigating acquisition of the interdental fricative show little use of /θ/ by L2 speakers even after spending several weeks in an immersion context (e.g., Knouse, 2013; Ringer-Hilfinger, 2012), little is known about L2 learners' ability to accurate perceive /θ/, their ability to (re)map /θ/ to its corresponding graphemic contexts in Spanish, nor about the potential phonetic differences in realizations of /θ/ as compared to advanced L2 and native Castilian Spanish speakers. My dissertation investigates these gaps in the literature by using an ABX discrimination task, a spelling identification task, a verbal guise task, and a picture description and wordlist reading task.