Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Joaquín Romero Gallego

Education:

Llicenciat en Filologia Anglogermànica (Anglès), Universitat de Barcelona (1987)

Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of Connecticut (1992)

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Connecticut (1995)

Teaching:

Phonetics and Phonology

The Sound System of English

History of the English Language

Teaching English Pronunciation in the EFL class

Methods and Tools in EFL Research

Research:

Speech production 

Articulatory phonetics and phonology

The phonetics-phonology interface

Sound change

English pronunciation teaching methodology

Publications:

Romero, Joaquín; Riera, María (editors) (2015). The Phonetics-Phonology Interface. Representations and Methodologies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Romero, Joaquín; Riera, María (2014). English plosives: Beyond the [±voice] distinction.Readings in English Phonetics and Phonology. Valencia, Spain: Instituto Interuniversitario de Lengua Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunidad Valenciana. Monografías IULMA-UV, 105-131.

Riera, María; Romero, Joaquín (2013). New insights into American English V+/r/ sequences. Rhotics - New Data and Perspectives. Bolzano/Bolzen: Bolzano University Press, 155-168.

Rallo Fabra, L. & J. Romero (2012). Native Catalan learners' perception and production of English vowels. Journal of Phonetics 40.3: 491-508.

Riera, María, Joaquín Romero & Ben Parrell (2009). Schwa in American English V+/r/ sequences. In Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota & M. João Freitas (eds.), Phonetics and phonology: Interactions and interrelations, 15-34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Romero, J. (2008). La electromagnetometría en el estudio de la producción del habla. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XVII, 359-374

Romero, J. (2008). Gestural timing in the perception of Spanish r+C clusters. In Laura Colantoni & Jeffrey Steele (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, 59-71.

Solé, M.J., Recasens, D. & Romero, J. (2003). Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Causal Productions, Australia (CD-ROM)/ Barcelona: Futurgraphic (print proceedings).

Romero, J. & Martín, S. (2003). Articulatory Weakening as basis of historical rhotacism. In Solé, M.J., Recasens, D. & Romero, J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona: Causal Productions, 2825-2828

Romero, J. & Recasens, D. (2000). American English flapping and tongue tip blending. Proceedings of the 5th Speech Production Seminar. Models and Data, 101-104.

Soler, A. & Romero, J. (1999). The role of duration in stop lenition in Spanish. Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 483-486.

Romero, J. (1999). The effect of voicing assimilation on gestural coordination. Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1793-1796.

Recasens, D. & Romero, J. (1997). An articulatory study of palatals and palatalized alveolars. Phonetica 54, 43-58.

Romero, J. (1996). Articulatory blending of lingual consonants. Journal of Phonetics 24(1), 99-111.

Romero, J. (1995). An Articulatory Study of Historical /s/ Aspiration in Spanish. Rivista di Linguistica 7.1, 191-208.

Contact information:

Office: 2.16
Telephone: 977299476

Avinguda Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

joaquin.romero(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat