Meghan Armstrong

Research interests

- Intonation (Puerto Rican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese)
- Experimental phonology
- Acquisition of intonation
- African American Vernacular English

Current projects

- The acquisition of question intonation and Puerto Rican and Peninsular Spanish (Thesis project)
- Question intonation in Puerto Rican Spanish
- L2 acquisition of stress/intonation/pragmatic implicature (L1 Spanish speakers acquiring English as L2)

Selected Publications

Armstrong, M. E. (2010). «Puerto Rican Spanish». In: Prieto, P.; Roseano. P.(eds.), Transcription of Intonation of the Spanish Language. Munich: Lincom EUROPA.

Armstrong, M. E. (2010). «Intonational Encoding of Pragmatic Meaning: The Case of Absolute Interrogatives in Puerto Rican Spanish». Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL.

Armstrong, M. E.; Bergmann, A.; Tamati, T.(2008). «Prosody and Negation in Brazilian Portuguese». Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brasil.

Selected Presentations

Armstrong, M. E. «Intonational Encoding of Pragmatic Meaning: The Case of Absolute Interrogatives in Puerto Rican Spanish» The Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, IL, May 2010.

Armstrong, M. E.(October) «Stress Retraction in L1 Spanish Speakers’ English». Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2009.

Armstrong, M. E.(June) «Intonation of Puerto Rican Spanish». Fourth Sp_ToBI Workshop, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 2009.