Stephen Fafulas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Office: Howry 208
Email: stephenf@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-8987

Education:
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University (2013)
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University (2009)
B.A in Spanish, University of Florida (2005)

Teaching and Research Interests:
Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, U.S. Spanish, Amazonian Spanish, Syntax, Morphology, Sociophonetics

Courses Taught:
LING 702: Linguistic Fieldwork and Data Analysis
SPAN 672: Research and Practice in Classroom Second Language Acquisition
SPAN 572: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
SPAN 330: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
LING 313: Introduction to Linguistics
SPAN 371: Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
SPAN 303: Spanish Conversation and Composition

Recent Publications:

Books

Fafulas, Stephen. (Editor). Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics book series, volume 23). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020.

Articles

Henriksen, Nicholas, Stephen Fafulas, and Erin O’Rourke. “Intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Amazonian Peru: the case of Yagua Spanish.” Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, edited by Rajiv Rao, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, pp. 142–161.

Fafulas, Stephen and Ricard Viñas de Puig. “Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon: The case of Yagua Spanish.” Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, edited by Stephen Fafulas, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, pp. 156–190.

Perry, Jamie, Katelyn Kotlarek, Lucía Mendez, Yolanda Holt, Stephen Fafulas, and Katie Broadwell. “Nasometric Comparison Between Spanish–English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children.” The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, vol. 56, no. 3, 2019, pp. 331-339.

Fafulas, Stephen, Manuel Díaz-Campos, and Michael Gradoville. “Stable Variation or Change in Progress? A Sociolinguistic Analysis of PA(RA) in the Spanish of Venezuela.” Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across Space and Time, edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018, pp. 223-245.

Méndez, Lucía, Jamie Perry, Yolanda Holt, Hui Bian, and Stephen Fafulas. “Same or different: Narrative retells in bilingual Latino kindergarten children.” Bilingual Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2018, pp.150-166.

Henriksen, Nicholas and Stephen Fafulas. “Prosodic timing and language contact: Spanish and Yagua in Amazonian Peru.” Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 2, 2017, pp. 225-257.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel and Stephen Fafulas. “Double Possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish.” Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence, edited by Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka, and Daniel Olson, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016, 335-354.

Kanwit, Matthew, Kimberly L. Geeslin, and Stephen Fafulas. “Study abroad and the SLA of variable structures: A look at the present perfect, the copula contrast, and the present progressive in Mexico and Spain.” Probus, vol. 27, no. 2, 2015, pp. 307-348.

Fafulas, Stephen. “The Pear Stories Film: Simple Presents and Present Progressives in Portuguese, Spanish and English.” Estudos Linguísticos/Linguistic Studies, vol. 11, 2015, pp. 61-81.

O’Rourke, Erin and Stephen Fafulas. “Spanish in Contact in the Peruvian Amazon: An Examination of Intervocalic Voiced Stops.” Selected Proceedings of the 6^thConference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, edited byErik W. Willis, Pedro Martín Butragueño, and Esther Herrera Zendejas, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2015, pp. 145-

Fafulas, Stephen. “Progressive Constructions in Native-Speaker and Adult-Acquired Spanish.” Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 85-133.