Selected Presentations

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Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2024) “L2 phonetic development across proficiency levels: Spanish voiced stops in beginner and intermediate learners.” Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2024. North Carolina State Unversity, March 15-16, 2024.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2024) “Variable phonological phenomena in speech perception: Regressive voicing assimilation and the perception of voicing contrasts in Spanish.” 21st Old World Conference in Phonology. University of Leipzig, Germany, Feb 14-16, 2024.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2023) “Singing to a genre: Multimodal indexing and variable rhoticity in British Americana”. Sociolinguistics of Pop Culture. University of Bamberg, Germany, March 30-31, 2023.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2022) “Gradience and L2 Learning of new phonetic categories vs. recategorization: L2 Spanish stops”. 4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics. Lund University, Sweden, Sept 14-15, 2022.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., P. Cordero, K. DeLeon, S. Sullivan, and H. Salgado (2022) “Creating new categories vs. learning new distributions in L2: Acquisition of Spanish voiced stops by L1 English learners”. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb 17-19, 2022.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2021) “Hearin’ on the edge: allophonic voicing and the perception of contrasts in Basque Spanish”. UD Workshop 2021 on Basque Linguistics, December 17,  2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2021) “Dialect accommodation in a corpus of music recordings: Perceptual salience in variable English rhotic production”. Corpus Linguistics. University of Limerick, Ireland, July 13-16, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2021) “The impact of non-contrastive voicing assimilation in speech perception”. 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe. Pompeu Fabra University, June 21-23, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. and H. Salgado (2021). Asymmetries in the acquisition of Spanish stop allophones by L1 English learners. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Brock University, Canada, June 18-19, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., K. DeLeon, K. Locascio and S. Sullivan (2021) “For the inclusion of pronunciation instruction early in the L2 curriculum: evidence from the acquisition of L2 Spanish voiceless stops”. 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe. Pompeu Fabra University, June 21-23, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2021) “The role of non-distinctive features in speech perception: Voicing assimilation and the perception of contrasts in Spanish”. Linguistics Symposium on  Romance Languages 51, University of Illinoi, Urbana-Champaign, April 29-May 1, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. K. DeLeon, K. LoCascio and S. Sullivan (2021) Forgotten allophones & their gradient friends: complexity in the acquisition of Spanish voiced stops”. Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 51, University of Illinoi, Urbana-Champaign, April 29-May 1, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., K. DeLeon, K. LoCascio and S. Sullivan (2021) “The impact of phonetic instruction on beginner versus intermediate learners” OSUCHiLL 2021, Ohio State University, March 12-13, 2021.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., O. Muxika-Loitzate, K. DeLeon, K. LoCascio and S. Sullivan (2020) “How early should we teach pronunciation? Sound category formation in beginner and intermediate learners”. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of the Southwest, September 24-26, 2020.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., O. Muxika-Loitzate, M. Towne and T. Zimmerman (2019) “Mixed methods to examine the acquisition of gradient allophonic variation.” Second Language Research Forum, Michigan State University, September 20-22, 2019.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., O. Muxika-Loitzate, A. Goldman and M. Towne (2019) “A mixed methods approach to the second language acquisition of Spanish voiced stop phonemes.” OSUCHiLL 2019, Ohio State University, March 29-30, 2019.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., O. Muxika-Loitzate and A. Goldman (2018) “Asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of allophonic alternations”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, UT-Austin, October 25-27, 2018.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., A. Goldman, O. Muxika-Loitzate, and H. Micsak (2018) “Acquisition of Spanish stop allophones in a college-level pronunciation course”. OSUCHiLL 2018, Ohio State Universsity, March 30-31, 2018.

Campos-Astorkiza, R., A. Goldman, O. Muxika-Loitzate, and H. Micsak (2018) “Rate of L2 acquisition of Spanish voiced and voiceless stops allophones”. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2018, Indiana University, February 23-24, 2018.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2017) “Voicing assimilation and weakening of /s/ in Iberian Spanish: connecting both phenomena in a gestural model”. Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain, November 2017.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2017) “L2 acquisition of Spanish phonology”. Special Session at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. University of Delaware, April 21-23, 2017.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. and N. Polo (2016) “Voicing assimilation as evidence for the prosodic hierarchy in Spanish”. Hispanic  Linguistics Symposium. Georgetown University, October 7-9, 2016.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2016) “Approximating your pronunciation: Lessons from and for teaching the stop/ approximant alternation in Spanish”. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology. Ohio State University, April 15-17, 2016 (Materials can be found at http://u.osu.edu/ignite2016)

Campos-Astorkiza, R. & N. Polo (2016) “La jerarquía prosódica del español: evidencia acústica derivada de la sonorización de la /s/”. XXVIII International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology. Rome, Italy, July 18-23, 2016.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2016) “Perceptual salience in speech adaptation: Evidence from English rhotic production in singing speechAnnual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Washington DC, January 7-10, 2016.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. (2015) “A cross-dialectal model of voicing assimilation in Peninsular Spanish”. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2015), Cambridge, UK, June 29-30, 2015

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2015 “Babel, babel look at me now! Rhotic adaptation in British Americana”. PAC 2015Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English. Toulouse, France, April 9-13, 2015.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2015 “Differences in voicing assimilation across Peninsular dialects: a cross-dialectal model”. IV Jornadas de Lingüística Hispánica. Armonía y contrastes. Lisbon, Portugal, April 21-22, 2015

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2014. “I see bodegas: The visual pronunciation of voiced stops and approximants in Spanish”. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology, Washington D.C., March 14-16, 2014. (Materials can be found at http://ignite-caspslap-2014.weebly.com/)

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2013. “Segmental & prosodic effects on Spanish sibilant voicing assimilation”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Ottawa, October 17-20, 2013.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2013. “Exploring variability in Spanish sibilant voicing assimilation”. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, New Brunswick, NJ, September 27-28, 2013.

Campos-Astorkiza. R. 2013. “Segmental and prosodic effects on voicing assimilation: a gestural blending account”. 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, July 21-27, 2013. Latsis Prize for Best Poster, 3rd position.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. & R. Fletcher. 2013. “Spain from here/España desde aquí: Notes on an exhibition proposal”. Towards Iberian Studies: A Conference, Columbus, OH, April 11-13, 2013.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. & S. Little. 2012. “Metropolitan French rhotic variation: acoustic evidence for internal and external factors”. 41st Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Fort Wayne, IN, Octobre 11-13, 2012.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2012. “Voicing assimilation as gestural blending: acoustic evidence from Spanish”. 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 24-26, 2012.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2011.”Sibilant voicing assimilation in Spanish as gestural blending”. Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Ottawa, May 5-7, 2011.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2012. “Prosodic conditionings on Spanish sibilant voicing assimilation”. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2011, Tarragona, June 21-22, 2011.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2010 “Conditionings on Spanish sibilant voicing assimilation”. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, November 15-19, 2010

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2009. “Process-dependent differences in voicing neutralization”. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2009, Gran Canaria June 17-19, 2009

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2009. “What drives compensatory lengthening? Beyond moraic conservation” International Conference on Literature, Languages and Linguistics. Athens, July 13-16, 2009

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2008. “The role of phonological contrast in vowel harmony: Evidence from Romance varieties”. 37th Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Oregon State University, October 17-19, 2008.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2008. “A comparison between two cases of voicing neutralization: Final devoicing and voicing assimilation in obstruent clusters”. Acoustics 2008 – Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris, 29 June-4 July, 2008.

Campos-Astorkiza, R. 2008. “Two sources of voicing neutralization in Lithuanian”. International Speech Communication Association Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens, 25-27 August, 2008.