Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Hispanic and Italian Studies
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About
Co-editor, Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics (a Mouton de Gruyter Publication, Germany)
Associate Editor, Signos Lingüísticos, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México.
Comité Evaluador Científico, Miríada Hispánica, University of Virginia-Valencia.
Major Interests
Spanish phonology, morphology, dialectology, and the development of Spanish phonology.
Selected Publications
Books
- The Syllable and Stress. Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2016).
- Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española (2da edición) co-authored with Sonia Colina and Travis Bradley. Georgetown University Press (2014).
- Language Knowledge and Use: a Romance Perspective, co-authored with Luis López and Richard Cameron. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing (2003).
- Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española. co-authored with Alfonso Morales-Front. Georgetown University Press (1999).
- Morfología de la supinación española. Santo Domingo: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1993).
- Studies in Romance Languages, co-authored with Carol Neidle. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications (1987).
- Estudios sobre la fonología del español del Caribe, co-authored with Páez Urdaneta & Jorge M. Guitart.Caracas: Fundación Casa de Bello (1986).
- La fonología moderna y el español de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Editorial Taller (1980).
Chapters in books
- ¨The acquisition order of Spanish liquids in complex onsets.¨ In The Syllable and Stress, ed. by Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño, 219-241. Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2016.
- “On interpreting generic (pro)nouns in Spanish.” In Advances in Hispanic Linguistics: Papers from the 2nd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Javier Gutierrez-Rexach and Fernando Martinez-Gil. MA: Cascadilla Press, 1999, pp. 36-56.
- “En torno a la neutralidad genérica del pronombre ‘él’.” In El Caribe hispánico: perspectivas lingüística actuales, ed. By Luis A. Ortiz López . Vervuert, Germany, 1999, pp. 119-29.
- “El Español en Santo Domingo.” In Enciclopedia Dominicana, Vol. 6, ed. by Maritza Rossi et al. Bogotá, 2002.
- “En torno al contexto real de la vocalización cibaeña: un nuevo replanteamiento prosódic.” Co-authored with Junice Acosta. In Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Luis A. Ortiz-López, 239-250. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2011.
Articles
- “Expansion in Hispanic linguistics needs more than number.” Hispanic Issues on Line: Fall 2006, Part II.#4.
- “The acquisition of Spanish codas: a frequency/sonority approach.” Hispania2007:90.148-163.
- “The /-(e)se/ in popular Dominican Spanish: an expressive marker, not a double plural.” Spanish in Context 2008:2.196-223.
- “On the acquisition of Spanish onsets: a case study.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics2008:27.77-106.
- “En torno al contexto real de la vocacalización cibaeña: un nuevo replanteamiento prosódico.” Co-authored with Junice Acosta. Miríada Hispánica I. 2010: 101-116.
Notable Honors
1979, Premio Siboney del Ensayo for La fonología moderna y el español de Santo Domingo.,
1993 , Premio Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña for Morfología de la sufijación española,
2010, Day Dedication and Street Name Designation, XIII Feria Internacional del Libro
December 18, 2011, 100 prominent Dominicans living abroad, Dominican Republic Government
Education
PhD, University of Minnesota
Professional Memberships
- Correspondent Member of Academia de la Lengua Española de la Rep. Dominicana, 2003- present.
- Member Academia de Ciencias de R. Dominicana, 1994-present.