Franny Brogan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

With Pomona since:

2018

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Expertise

Franny Brogan studies Spanish sociolinguistics. Specifically, her research centers on understudied dialects of Central America, where historical and sociopolitical circumstances have helped create a particularly rich envelope of sociophonetic variation. She is also interested in best practices for modeling sociophonetic variation within formal phonological theory and strives to demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in her research.

Areas of Expertise

Hispanic Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Phonetics
Phonetically-based Phonology

Research Interests

Sociophonetics, Optimality Theory, Quantitative Models of Phonological Variation, Lenition, Diachronic Sound Change, Language and Dialect Contact, Dialectology.

Work

Brogan, Franny D., & Deborah Yi. (accepted). Rethinking gender principles in El Salvador: Evidence from /s/ weakening. To appear in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Brogan, Franny D. (2020). “Demystifying Salvadoran [sθ]: Evidence for /s/ lenition. In A. Morales-Front, M. J. Ferreira, R. P. Leow and C. Sanz (Eds.), Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions. Amsterdam: John-Benjamins.

Brogan, Franny D. and Mariška Bolyanatz. (2018). “A Sociophonetic Account of Onset /s/ Weakening in Salvadoran Spanish: Instrumental and Segmental Analyses,” Language Variation and Change, 30(2): 1-28.

Brogan, Franny D. and JyEun Son. (2015). “Native Language Transfer in Target Language Usage: An Exploratory Case Study,” Voices, 3(1): 47-62.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., University of California, Davis

Awards & Honors

Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), University of California, Los Angeles, 2017-2018

Shirley Arora Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015-2016

Ben and Rue Pine Research Travel Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM), University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

UC California Studies Consortium Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2014

T.A. of the Year, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2013

Rookie T.A. of the Year, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013