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Travis BradleyAssistant Professor of Spanish Email: tgbradley@ucdavis.edu |
Research Areas
Phonological Theory: Optimality Theory, Articulatory
Phonology, and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface; Phonetic and Phonological
Variation in Ibero-Romance and Other Languages; Historical Romance
Phonology. Other interests include second language acquisition and
technology-enhanced language learning.
Current Projects
Variation and change in the sound system of Judeo-Spanish. Small Grant in Aid
of Research 2006-08, UC Davis Academic Senate. Read abstract [PDF].
Contrast Maintenance of Taps and Trills in Dominican Spanish: Data and Analysis. To be presented with Erik Willis (Indiana University) at the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. September 2006.
Asymmetrical Rhotic Metathesis in French and Spanish: Sound Change as Conspiracy. In progress with Eric Russell Webb (UC Davis, French & Italian).
Recent Publications
Bradley, Travis G. (In press.) Morphological Derived-Environment Effects in
Gestural Coordination: A Case Study of Norwegian Clusters. Lingua.
Bradley, Travis G. (In press.) Spanish Complex Onsets and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface. Optimality-Theoretical Studies in Spanish Phonology, ed. by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bradley, Travis G. 2006a. Contrast and Markedness in Complex Onset Phonotactics. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 25.1, 29-58.
Bradley, Travis G. 2006b. Phonetic Realizations of /sr/ Clusters in Latin American Spanish. Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos, 1-13. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Bradley, Travis G. 2006c. Spanish Rhotics and Dominican Hypercorrect /s/. Probus 18.1, 1-33.
Bradley, Travis G., and Ann Marie Delforge. 2006a. Phonological Retention and Innovation in the Judeo-Spanish of Istanbul. Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Timothy L. Face and Carol A. Klee, 73-88. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Bradley, Travis G., and Ann Marie Delforge. 2006b. Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing. Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives, ed. by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga, 19-52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bradley, Travis G. 2005a. Sibilant Voicing in Highland Ecuadorian Spanish. Lingua(gem) 2.2, 9-42.
Bradley, Travis G. 2005b. Systemic Markedness and Phonetic Detail in Phonology. Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Romance Linguistics, ed. by Randall Gess and Ed Rubin, 41-62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Courses Taught
Graduates Courses:
SPA 205: Spanish Phonology
SPA 215: Technology in Foreign/Second Language Education
SPA 215: Contemporary Issues in Spanish Phonology
Undergraduate Courses:
SPA 111N: The Structure of Spanish: Sounds and Words
SPA 113: Spanish Pronunciation
SPA 118: Topics in Spanish Linguistics


