Esther Brown Assistant Professor PhD University of New Mexico (2004) Office: MKNA 133 | Phone: 303.735.6170 | Email: brownel@colorado.edu Current Office Hours

Research Areas

Spanish Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Spanish in the United States, Sociolinguistics, Phonology

Selected Publications

Selected Articles:

"Spanish /s/: A Different Story from Beginning (Initial) to End (Final)" (with Rena Torres-Cacoullos). A Romance Perspective in Language Knowledge and Use: Selected Papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19-22 April 2001. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003.

"¿Qué le vamo(h) a(h)er?: Taking the Syllable out of Spanish /s/ Reduction" (with Rena Torres Cacoullos). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (Papers from NWAV 30. Vol. 8.3). Eds. Daniel Ezra Johnson and Tera Sánchez. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2002. 17-32.