Terrell A. Morgan (born January 22, 1957) is an American linguist and professor of Hispanic

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

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. He is a

phonologist Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

and

dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...

specializing in documenting linguistic diversity and developing methods for students, teachers, and other linguists to experience the sounds and structures of

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in the real world. His research includes work on

phonetic Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

and morphosyntactic variation on topics such as

rhotics In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including , in the Latin script and , in the Cyrillic script. They ...

, ''

voseo In Spanish grammar, () is the use of as a second-person singular pronoun, along with its associated verbal forms, in certain regions where the language is spoken. In those regions it replaces , i.e. the use of the pronoun and its verbal for ...

'', the current usage of ''vosotros'', and pedagogical approaches to phonetics.

Education

Morgan graduated from the

College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...

in 1979 with a B.A. in linguistics and a minor in

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. During his undergraduate career, he studied abroad at the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

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. After earning his M.A. in linguistics from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, Morgan went on to complete a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1984. His dissertation ''Consonant-Glide-Vowel Alternations in Spanish: A Case Study in Syllabic and Lexical Phonology'' was directed by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil.

Career

Morgan has been a professor of Hispanic linguistics at the Ohio State University since 1984. Additionally, Morgan has served as director of the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project, and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Ohio State University. Morgan published the Spanish phonetics textbook ''Sonidos en contexto: Una introducción a la fonética del español con especial referencia a la vida real'' in 2010. He has also co-edited two volumes, written book chapters, and published articles in journals such as ''Spanish in Context'', ''Probus'', and ''Studies in Romance Linguistics''. He has delivered keynote addresses at conferences such as the Foreign Language Association of Virginia and Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology and presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, and the Sociolinguistics Symposium, among others. Morgan has received multiple awards, including the Carnegie Foundation's Ohio Professor of the Year, the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (awarded twice), and the Friend of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia Award. Morgan is the creator of the website ''Voices of the Hispanic World'', an interactive collection of interviews with people from around the Spanish-speaking world designed to give Spanish teachers and students a way to experience Spanish dialects firsthand.

Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers

In 1991, Morgan founded the Ohio State University Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers (SSAST), an intensive two-week seminar that teaches primary and secondary school teachers of Spanish about Hispanic linguistics. The seminar has been held throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Previous locations include

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;

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;

San José, Costa Rica San José (; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San ...

;

Valencia, Spain Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...

;

Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Santiago de los Caballeros (; '' en, James, son of Zebedee, Saint James of the Knights''), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the cap ...

;

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; Asunción, Paraguay;

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;

Cochabamba, Bolivia Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630 ...

;

Granada, Nicaragua Granada () is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of 104,980 (2021), it is Nicaragua's ninth most populous city. Granada is historically one of Nicaragua's most important cities, econ ...

;

Córdoba, Argentina Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province a ...

;

Lima, Peru Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...

;

Barranquilla, Colombia Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean region of Colombia, Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population ...

; and

Havana, Cuba Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

Personal life

Morgan grew up in

Hampton, Virginia Hampton () is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 137,148. It is the List ...

, where he graduated from

Kecoughtan High School Kecoughtan High School (pronounced "KICK-a-tan") is a public high school located in Hampton, Virginia. The current grades offered are 9–12. Kecoughtan High School is one of four high schools located in the Hampton City Public School District. ...

in 1975. While studying abroad in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

, Spain, he met Esperanza Roselló and the two have been married since 1980. The couple has two sons, Caleb and Rubén.

Selected publications

* Morgan, T. A., & Schwenter, S. A. (2016). Vosotros, ustedes, and the myth of the symmetrical Castilian pronoun system. ''Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, 12'', 263. * Morgan, T. A., & Sessarego, S. (2016). A phonetic analysis of intervocalic /r/ in Highland Bolivian Spanish. ''Spanish in Context, 13''(2), 195-211. * Morgan, T. A. (2010). ''Sonidos en contexto: Una introducción a la fonética del español con especial referencia a la vida real''. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. * Morgan, T. A. (2006). On the teaching of Spanish pronunciation. In ''Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology'', 119-130. * Díaz-Campos, M., & Morgan, T.A. (2002). On the production and perception of Spanish palatal obstruents: An acoustic phonetic study with implications for phonology, dialectology, and pedagogy. In J. Lee, K. Geeslin, & J.C. Clements (eds.), ''Structure, Meaning and Acquisition in Spanish''. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press. 244-268. * Beckman, M., Díaz-Campos, M., McGory, J. T., & Morgan, T. A. (2002). Intonation across Spanish, in the Tones and Break Indices framework. ''Probus, 14''(1), 9-36. * Morgan, T. A. (2000). The curious pedigree of Spanish orthographic h. In H. Campos et al. (Eds.). ''Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 3rd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium'' (pp. 144–154). Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press. * Morgan, T.A. (1998). The linguistic parameters of /s/ insertion in Dominican Spanish: A case study in qualitative hypercorrection. ''Perspectives on Spanish Linguistics, 3'', 79-96. * Laeufer, C. & Morgan, T. A. (Eds.) (1992). ''Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics.'' Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Morgan, T. A., & Janda, R. D. (1989). Musically-conditioned stress shift in Spanish revisited: Empirical verification and nonlinear analysis. In C. Kirschner & J. DeCesaris (eds.), ''Studies in Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings from the 17th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 273-288. * Morgan, T.A., J.F. Lee, & B. VanPatten (eds.). (1987). ''Language and Language Use: Studies in Spanish''. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

References

External links

Terrell A. Morgan's faculty page

Voices of the Hispanic World
website
Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Terrell A. Ohio State University faculty University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni People from Newport News, Virginia Linguists from the United States College of William & Mary alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni 1957 births Phonologists Living people