research

Amanda Boomershine, PhD

Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Current Research Projects

Realization of /bdg/ in heritage and L1 Spanish speakers in NC (Lukas Tillmann's Honors project)

Realization of syllable-final /s/ in Mexican Spanish (with Greg Lewis)

English vowel production by heritage (early bilingual) speakers of Spanish (with Katie Denton)

Spanish vowel systems of heritage (early bilingual) and late bilingual speakers of Spanish

Perception of Spanish and English vowels by heritage, monolingual, and L2 speakers of Spanish and English

Perception of allophonic and phonemic consonantal contrasts by heritage speakers of Spanish

Publications

Boomershine, Amanda. 2013. The Perception of English Vowels by Monolingual, Bilingual, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish and English. In S. Blackwell and C. Howe (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press. pp. 103 - 118.

Boomershine, Amanda. 2009. Perceptual Processing of Variable Input in Spanish. Germany: VDM Verlag.

Boomershine, Amanda, Kathleen Currie Hall, Beth Hume, and Keith Johnson. 2008. The Influence of Allophony vs. Contrast on Perception: The Case of Spanish and English. In P. Avery, E. Dresher & K. Rice (eds.), Phonological Contrast. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 143-172.

Boomershine, Amanda. 2007. An Exemplar Based Approach to Speech Processing. In P. Reich and B. Sullivan (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the LACUS Forum XXXIII.

Boomershine, Amanda. 2006. Perceiving and Processing Dialectal Variation in Spanish: An Exemplar Theory Approach. In Face, Timothy (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press.

Recent Presentations

"An acoustic analysis of North Carolina heritage speakers’ Spanish and English vowels" (with Katie Denton), presented at the 2013 Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina Conference, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

2013

“The variable realization of /s/ in Mexico City Spanish” (with Greg Lewis), presented at the 2013 Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina Conference, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

2013

“What we know about the Sound Systems(s) of Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Results of a Production Study of Spanish and English Bilingual and Heritage Speakers”, presented at the 2012 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

2012

“Breaking the Language/Literature Divide: How Two UNC System Universities Address Advanced Oral Proficiency Issues in the Spanish Major” (with Mark Darhower), presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC.

2012

“The voicing of word-final /s/: The role of syllabic stress” (with Greg Lewis), presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC.

2012

“An acoustic analysis of variable vowel production in heritage and bilingual Spanish of North Carolina”, presented at 2012 Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina Conference, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina.

2012

"The perception of English vowel contrasts: The case of Monolingual, Bilingual, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish and English", presented at the 2011 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

2011

"The Perception of English Vowels by Monolingual, L2, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish and English", presented at the 2011 Conference on Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina

2011