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Christopher Botero
Lecturer of Spanish (ABD)

Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University
247 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 863-9688
E-mail: cgb128@psu.edu

Research Interests:

Phonetics, phonology, bilingualism, second-language acquisition.


Recent Publications:

Refereed Proceedings:

Bullock, B. E., Toribio, A. J., Davis, K. A., & Botero, C. G. (2005). Phonetic convergence in bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish. In V. Chand, A. Kelleher, A. J. Rodríguez, & B. Schmeiser (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pg. 113-125). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Toribio, A. J., Bullock, B. E., Botero, C. G., & Davis. K. A. (2005). Perseverative phonetic effects in bilingual code-switching. In R. S. Gess & E. J. Rubin (Eds.), Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 34th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) (pg. 294-306). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Presentations:

Botero, C. G. (2009). Improving L2 phonology with technology outside the classroom. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Philology, Literature and Linguistics. Athens Institute for Education and Research. July 13-16, Athens, Greece.

Other Professional Presentations:

Botero, C. G. (2009). Using ANGEL to improve pronunciation in a second-language. Presented at the Twenty-fourth Annual Graduate Exhibition. Pennsylvania State University, University Park.