Dr. Brendan Regan

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Dr. Brendan Regan is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Texas Tech University and the Director of the Texas Tech Sociolinguistics & Bilingualism Research Lab. He also serves as the Coordinator of Hispanic Linguistics (undergraduate and graduate programs). His research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, phonetics & phonology, language attitudes & language ideologies, bilingualism, SLA & study abroad, dialects/languages in contact, and variational pragmatics. He utilizes a range of quantitative experimental methods for production and perception data (sociolinguistic interviews, laboratory approaches, corpora data, matched-guise experiments, forced-choice experiments, etc.) and statistical analyses. He also employs mixed-methods utilizing qualitative discourse analysis to complement quantitative analyses. 

Education

• Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2017
• M.A., Temple University
• B.A., University of Richmond

Email

brendan.regan@ttu.edu

CV

Dr. Brendan Regan - CV

Website

https://brendanpregan.weebly.com/

Areas of Research

• Sociolinguistics

• Sociophonetics

• Phonetics & Phonology

• Language Attitudes & Language Ideologies

• Bilingualism

• SLA & Study Abroad

• Dialects/Languages in Contact

• Variational Pragmatics​

Courses commonly taught

Graduate:

• SPAN 5388: Spanish Phonetics & Phonology 
• SPAN 5389: Spanish Quantitative Sociolinguistics 
• SPAN 5390: Language Ideologies 
• SPAN 5391: Spanish Sociophonetics
• PORT 5342: Intensive Portuguese II for Spanish Speakers

Undergraduate:

• SPAN 3308: How the Spanish Language Works: A Course in Hispanic Linguistics 
• SPAN 3318: The Sounds of Spanish
• SPAN 4318: Spanish in the United States 
• SPAN 4343: Advanced Language Skills (Sevilla study abroad program)
• SPAN 4346: Spanish Life and Culture (Sevilla study abroad program) 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tieperman, R., & Regan, B. (2023). A variationist corpus analysis of the definite article with personal names across three varieties of Spanish (Chilean, Mexican, Andalusian). Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 9(1)/10: 1-27. 

Mastrantuono, A., & Regan, B. (2023). Present Perfect and Preterit Variation in the Spanish of Lima and Mexico City: Findings from a corpus analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. First View. 

Regan, B. (2023). Individual differences in the acquisition of language-specific and dialect-specific allophones of intervocalic /d/ by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers studying abroad in Sevilla. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 65-92. 

Regan, B. (2022). Guadaloop or Guadalupe?: Place-name variation and place identity in Austin, Texas. American Speech, 97(4), 441-482. 

Archer, C., & Regan, B. (2022). An analysis of the yeísmo merger in Córdoba, Argentina: A synchronic coexistence of all diachronic processes of lleísmo to yeísmo sound change. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 28(2), Article 2. 

Regan, B. (2022). La percepción social del seseo sevillano y sus implicaciones para la norma sevillana. Lingüística en la Red, Núm. XIX, 1-27. 

Regan, B. (2022). The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo). Language in Society, 51(3), 481-510.   

Regan, B. (2021). Analyzing Andalusian coronal fricative norms (ceceo, seseo, and distinción) using a sociophonetic Demerger Index. In M. Díaz-Campos (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish, 137-158. Routledge.  

Regan, B. (2021). Differing effects of speaker and listener characteristics on the perception of two traditional Andalusian features undergoing dialect leveling. In Luis A. Ortiz-López & Eva-María Suárez-Büdenbender (Eds.), Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions, pp. 95-116. Routledge.

Regan, B. (2020). Intra-regional differences in the social perception of allophonic variation: The evaluation of [tʃ] and [ʃ] in Huelva and Lepe (Western Andalucía). Journal of Linguistic Geography 8(2) 82-101.  

Regan, B. (2020). Extending Pillai scores to fricative mergers: Advancing a gradient analysis of a split-in-progress in Andalusian Spanish. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 26(2): Article 13.  

Regan, B. (2020). El [ʃ]oquero: /tʃ/ variation in Huelva capital and surrounding towns. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXIX: 55-90. 

Regan, B. (2020). The split of a fricative merger due to dialect contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-speech. Language Variation and Change 32(2): 159-190. 

Regan, B. (2019). Dialectology meets Sociophonetics: The social evaluation of ceceo and distinción in Lepe, Spain. In Whitney Chappell (Ed.), Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception [IHLL 21], pp. 85-121. John Benjamins.

Regan, B. (2017). A linguistic analysis of Quechua borrowings in Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido: National ideology seen through linguistic incorporation. Hispanic Studies Review 2(2): 224-253.

Regan, B. (2017). A study of ceceo variation in Western Andalucía (Huelva). Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10(1): 19-60.

Regan, B. (2016). Prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of ¡Hombre! as a discourse marker. In Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence [IHLL 12], Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka, and Daniel Olson (Eds.), pp. 211-239. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.