Manuel Díaz-Campos | Faculty | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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Manuel Díaz-Campos | Faculty

Manuel Díaz-Campos Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Office: Ballantine Hall 857
TEL: 856-5462
Email: mdiazcam at indiana dot edu

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Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2001. The Ohio State University
M.A. in Linguistics, 1996. Universidad Central de Venezuela
Licentiate in Mass Media, 1997. Universidad Central de Venezuela
Licentiate in Letters, 1991. Universidad Central de Venezuela

Specializations

Sociolinguistics
Phonological Variation
Child Phonology
Intonation
Second language Phonology

Selected Publications

Book

Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2001. La posición de la frase nominal sujeto respecto al verbo: un estudio del habla infantil caraqueña. Caracas: Fondo Editorial de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

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Díaz-Campos, Manuel (Ed.). 2006. Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla

Articles in print or in press

Díaz-Campos, Manuel. In press. La adquisición de la estructura fonológica y de la variación sociolingüística: un análisis cuantitativo del debilitamiento consonántico en el habla de niños caraqueños. In Estudios lingüísticos. Homenaje a Paola Bentivoglio. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Colina, Sonia and Manuel Díaz-Campos. In press-a. Syllabic affiliation of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician Prosodies. Phonetics and Phonology Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Colina, Sonia and Manuel Díaz-Campos. In press-b. The phonetics and phonology of intervocalic velar nasals in Galacian. Lingua.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2005. The emergence of adult-like command of sociolinguistic variables: A study of consonant weakening in Spanish-speaking children. In Studies in the Acquisition of the Hispanic Languages: Papers from the 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, ed. Devid Eddington, 56-65. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2004. Context of learning in the acquisition of Spanish second language phonology. Studies in second language acquisitions 26: 249-273.
Norman Segalowitz, Barbara Freed, Joe Collentine, Barbara Lafford, Nicole Lazar, Manuel Díaz-Campos. 2004. A Comparison of the Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language in Two Different Contexts of Learning: Study Abroad versus the Regular Academic Classroom. Frontiers, Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad X: 1-19.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2004. La adquisición de patrones de variación sociofonológica en el habla infantil. In Actas XIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, ed. Víctor Sánchez Corrales, 255-266. San José: Universidad de Costa Rica.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2004. Acquisition of sociolinguistic variables in Spanish: Do children acquire individual lexical forms or variable rules? In Laboratory approaches to Spanish phonology, ed. Timothy Face. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2004. Hacia una perspectiva de los estudios en el campo de la psicolinguística en Venezuela. In Las disciplinas lingüísticas en Venezuela. Situación actual, otras miradas y nuevas expectativas, ed. Francisco Javier Pérez and Francisco Freites, 169-200. Maracaibo: Universidad Catótica Cecilio Acosta.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2003. The Pluralization of Haber in Venezuelan Spanish: A Sociolinguistic Change in Real Time. IU Working Papers in Linguistics 03-05.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2003. Acoustic Analysis of Voiceless Initial Stops in the Speech of Study Abroad and Regular Class Students: Context of Learning as a Variable in Spanish Second Language Acquisition. In Theory, Practice, and Acquisition: Papers from the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, ed. Paula Kempchinsky and Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros, 352-370. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2002. La entonación en el español de América: Un estudio acerca de ocho dialectos hispanoamericanos. Boletín de lingüística 18: 3-26.
Beckman, Mary, Manuel Díaz-Campos, Julia T. McGory and Terrell A. Morgan. 2002. Intonation across Spanish in the Tones and Break Indices Framework. Probus 14: 9-36.
McGory, Julia and Manuel Díaz-Campos. 2002. Declarative Intonation Patterns in Multiple Varieties of Spanish. In Structure, Meaning, and Acquisition in Spanish: Papers from the 4th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, ed. Kimberly L. Geeslin, James F. Lee, and J. Clancy Clements, 73-92. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel and Terrell A. Morgan. 2002. On the Production and Perception of Spanish Palatal Obstruents: An Acoustic Phonetic Study with Implications for Phonology, Dialectology, and Pedagogy. In Structure, Meaning, and Acquisition in Spanish: Papers from the 4th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, ed. Kimberly L. Geeslin, James F. Lee, and J. Clancy Clements, 244-268. Somerville: Cascadilla.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 2000. The Phonetic Manifestation of Secondary Stress in Spanish. In Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the Millenium: Papers from the 3rd Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, ed. Hector Campos, Elena Herburger, Alfonso Morales-Front and Thomas J. Walsh, 49-65. Somerville: Cascadilla.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1999-2000. La Pluralización del verbo haber en dos áreas dialectales de Hispanoamérica. Anuario de Lingüística Hispánica 15-16; 235-245.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1999. Resilabeo y aspiración de /-s/ en posición implosiva en el español de Venezuela. Boletín de Lingüística No 14: 3-17.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1999. La velarización de /p b t d/ en posición final de sílaba en el español de Venezuela. Lingua Americana III: 7-25.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1997. Análisis del discurso narrativo infantil: correlaciones entre orden de palabras y tipos de verbos. Lengua y Habla Vol 1-2: 70-77.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1996. La expresión del agente y la asignación de responsabilidades. En Estudios en el análisis crítico del discurso, ed. Adriana Bolívar, 47-64. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Díaz-Campos, Manuel. 1993. La recuperación de las estructuras argumentativas. Boletín de la Academia Venezolana de la Lengua Correspondiente de la Real Española, 171-172: 159-166.

Honors and Awards

2004 Grant from the College Arts and Humanities Initiative.
2003 Overseas Conference Fund, Office of International Programs, Indiana University.
2003 Faculty Conference Fund, Dean of the faculties, Indiana University.
2002 Conference Travel Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.
2002 Conference Travel Award, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University.
2001 Falk Grant, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University.
2000 Conference Travel Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
1999 Conference Travel Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
1997 Mención honorífica y publicación del trabajo presentado para ascender a la categoría de profesor asistente, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
1997 Programa de Estímulo al Investigador, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
1996 “Mención publicación” de la tesis presentada para optar al grado de Magister Scientiarum en Lingüística, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Current Research Projects

The acquisition of sociolinguistic variables in children's speech
Context of learning and phonological acquisition in second language learners of Spanish
Syllabic affiliation of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician.
Mainland Spanish colonies and Creole genesis: The Afro-Venezuelan area revisited.
The effect of phonetic factors in the perception of phonological variation: An experimental study of internal constraints of syllable-final /s/