Assistant Professor
Name: | Del Saz Caracuel, María | |
Position: | Assistant Professor | |
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Address: | Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana Última planta (n.º despacho 2) |
María Del Saz Caracuel holds a PhD in English Language and Linguistics from the Universidad de Sevilla. She has been Teaching Assistant of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Instructor of English at the Universidad de Sevilla, and Associate Professor of Phoneticas at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Her research interests include L1 and L2 Speech Perception, Phonetics of Sound Change, and Speech Technologies, based on the notion that not only is the L1, but specifically the L1 variety/dialect, what shapes perception and change. At the moment, she is focused on phonetic change in Western Andalusian Spanish, my native variety of the language, as well as on English as a Foreign Language.
Main publications
- Del Saz, M. (accepted for 2025). El inglés afroamericano: ¿Lengua o dialecto?. Dialectologia, 34.
- Román Montes de Oca, D. & Del Saz Caracuel, M. (2024). Descripción fonética de las consonantes laterales. En J. Gil Fernández and J. Llisterri Boix (Eds.) Fonética y Fonología Descriptiva de la Lengua Española. Georgetown University Press: Washington DC, USA.
- Del Saz, M. (2023). (In)complete neutralization in Western Andalusian Spanish. Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 32, 21-42. https://doi.org/10.1344/efe-2023-32-21-42
- Del Saz, M. & Grau, X. (2022). Production of Vowels and Nuclear Accents by Chilean Learners of English as a Foreign Language. RLA: Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, 60(1), 219-246. doi:10.29393/rla60-8pvmx20008
- Del Saz, M. (2019). From postaspiration to affrication: New phonetic contexts in Western Andalusian Spanish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, & Paul Warren (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 760-764). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1
- Del Saz, M. (2019). Native and non-native perception of Western Andalusian Spanish coda /s/ aspiration in quiet and noise. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 41(4), 673-694. doi:10.1017/S0272263119000056
- Del Saz Caracuel, M. & Bilbrough, M. (2017). Foro virtual en el aula de lengua extranjera. En J. Silva Quiroz (Ed.), EDUcación y TECnología: una mirada desde la Investigación e Innovación (pp. 522-525). Centro de Innovación e Investigación en Educación y Tecnología (CIIET): Santiago, Chile. ISBN: 978-956-393-378-9
- Del Saz, M. (2016). El reconocimiento del habla ante la variedad de una lengua: La africada dental andaluza. Onomázein, 34, 278-295. doi:10.7764/onomazein.34.17 ISSN: 0718-5758
- Del Saz, M. (2015). Effects of place of articulation on Spanish coda /s/ perception. In A. Cabedo Nebot (Ed.), Perspectivas actuales en el análisis fónico del habla. Tradición y avances en la fonética experimental (pp. 399-410). Universitat de València. ISBN: 978-84-606-8969-0
- Saz Caracuel, M. del (2010). A Gender Analysis of E-mail Communication. Interlingüística, 21, 231-239. ISSN: 1134-8941.
Research Projects
- FONDECYT de Iniciación (2019-2024): Cross-dialect speech perception: Aspiration and affrication in Chilean and Western Andalusian Spanish. Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Chile.
- DICYT (2018-2020): Producción de acento léxico y oracional en inglés como segunda lengua. Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- Beca Santander Jóvenes Profesores e Investigadores (2017). Nuevos fenómenos fonéticos del andaluz. Research stay at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) December 2017-March 2018
PDH Projects
- Sánchez, D. (2016). Improving listening comprehension by using digital stories in English in a group of EFL learners. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Acevedo Parra, E. (2018). Impoliteness in the Construction of the Digital Self Image: the Case of Facebook. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Mattus Donaire, A. (2018). The effect of synthetic speech on speech perception in Chilean EFL students. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Grau Morales, X. (2019). Chilean Spanish vowel system influence on the perception and production of American English vowel sounds: A comparative study of EFL B1,B2 AND C1 performance by adult learners at a state-funded university. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Laycook, R. G. (2019). The impact of explicit activation of L1 allophones on the perception of English phonemes by Chilean ELLs. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Riquelme, E. (2019). L2 Chilean learners' perception and production of English dental fricative sounds. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Reyes Castro, J.M. (2023). Dialectal Allophonic Consonant Transfer in Word Onset between Chilean Spanish and English in a Group of English Teaching Students from a Public Non-State University. MA thesis. Universidad de Santiago de Chile.