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Sarah Rowe

Senior Lecturer

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Withers Hall NA

Bio

I grew up in Durham, NC, and attended NC State for both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I got my Master’s in Hispanic Linguistics. As such, I find the human capacity for language to be fascinating, and I hope to share my passion for languages with my students. When I’m not teaching, I enjoy dancing and cooking.

Office Hours

  • MWF 10:30-11:15am
  • By appointment

Research Publications

Michnowicz, Jim, Rebecca Ronquest, Sarah Chetty, Georgia Green & Stephanie Oliver. 2023. “Spanish in the Southeast: What a swarm of variables can tell us about a newly-forming bilingual community”. Languages 8, 168.

Ronquest, R., Chetty, S., Gibson, H., Lait, E., Krieger, C., & Cathell, E. (Under review). An acoustic study of Voice Onset Time and Spanish vowel production in bilingual speech. The Hispanic Studies Review.

Presentations

Rowe, S. (March, 2024). “¡A cantar! Logrando fluidez por medio de la música”. Presentation at the Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP) 2024 conference at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Green, G. & Chetty. S. (February 2020). “Language Contact and Subsequent Phonetic Variation: The Distinction between -b- and -v- in United States Spanish.” Presentation at the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2020 conference at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Michnowicz, J.; Ronquest, R.; Chetty, S.; Oliver, S. & Rodríguez, M. (February 2019). “Extending the variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast”. Presentation at the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2019 conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

Chetty, S. & Ronquest, R. (October 2018). “On the Acoustic and Articulatory Realizations of -b- and -v- in Heritage and Immigrant Spanish in the Southeastern United States”. Presentation at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

Chetty, S. (February 2018). “To /b/ or not to /b/: On the Production of the Graphemes -bv- in Heritage Spanish”. Presentation at the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2018 conference at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Chetty, S. (October 2017). “To /b/ or not to /b/: On the Production of the Graphemes -bv- in Heritage Spanish”. Presentation at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC.

Chetty, S. (February 2017).“On the Acoustic Realizations of the Graphemes in Heritage Spanish”. Presentation at the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2017 conference at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Ronquest, R.; Chetty, S.; Hunter, H. & Lait, E. (February 2016). “The production of Spanish vowels by three groups of bilinguals from the Southeastern U.S”. Presentation at the Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2016 conference at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.

Ronquest, R.; Cathell, E.; Chetty, S.; Hunter, H.; Kreiger, C. & Lait, E. (April 2016). “On the production of voiceless stops and vowels by three groups of Spanish-English bilinguals”. Presentation at the Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP) 2016 conference at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Area(s) of Expertise

Acoustic phonetics; heritage/bilingual sound systems