Daniel Erker
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University
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Boston University
Professor Daniel Erker teaches courses in general linguistics and Spanish linguistics within Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences. His research interests include language variation, contact, and change, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, Spanish in the United States, the languages of Latin America, and the evolution of human language.
Professor Erker is the director of “The Spanish in Boston Project.” This project (funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1423840) aims to describe and understand how Spanish is used in the Greater Boston Area. More about the project: an interview on WGBH’s Under The Radar, a written piece in WBGH’s local news section, an article about the project in BU’s online daily newspaper BU Today.
To learn more about Professor Erker’s research and publications, please visit his website: http://blogs.bu.edu/danerker/.
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Here’s How Spanish In Boston Is Changing
November 12, 2015
WBUR “Radio Boston” Daniel Erker, College of Arts & Sciences Listen to audio of expert Daniel Erker
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How ‘ums’ and ‘ers’ are changing Bostonian Spanish
September 27, 2015
Boston Globe (subscription required) Daniel Erker, College of Arts & Sciences Boston has seen a dramatic increase in its Hispanic population since 2000, over 25 percent according to census records… “The folks who have lived 100 percent of their life in Boston almost never use ‘eh.’ They have abandoned that category and shifted to either ‘ah’ […]
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Spanish Dialects Melding In Boston
December 13, 2013
WGBH News Daniel Erker, College of Arts & Sciences Boston’s Spanish-speaking population largely hails from six places: Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala… Expert quote: “What we find is patterns of variation that are specific to individual speakers and individual speech communities.” View full article
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