Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Doctoral Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Areas of Interest/Research
Language variation, language contact, sociophonetics, linguistic landscape, language policies, Spanish SLA and instruction.
Background
Falcon Restrepo is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. He is currently finishing his thesis entitled “Language contact and divergent paths of variation: bilingual rhotics in two island communities of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia”. His dissertation focuses on a language contact situation in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia, where Spanish and an English-based Creole, known as Islander, coexist within the same territory. He studies sociophonetic variation as one of the outcomes of language contact phenomena. He is also interested in language policies, attitudes, and practices at the public level through the linguistic landscape of contact scenarios. He has also been engaged on research concerning Spanish SLA and instruction, particularly on the acquisition of variable forms and the improvement of language teaching methodologies.
Contact Information
Email:frestrepo@ufl.edu
Phone: (304) 777-3447
Office: Dauer Hall 1C
Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays (3:00-4:00 pm), and Fridays (12:50-1:40 pm).
Mailing address:
170 Dauer Hall
PO Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611