Dr. Alba

Arias Álvarez

Departments of Language Studies & English Language and Linguistics.
University of Sussex

I am a Lecturer in Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Sussex. My primary research interests are language contact, diaspora studies, sociophonetics, and language attitudes and identities.

My recent work analyzes acoustic data on onset /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish, as well as the Asturian-Spanish language contact situation in Asturias, Spain. I am also the founder of The Virginia Corpus of Spanish Variation.

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Publications

My research has been published in referred journal publications such as Hispania and I-LanD, and in various collected volumes such as Dialects from Tropical Islands: Research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States and El español en la red.

Media & community engagement

I seek to establish deeper and stronger relationships between academic institutions and local Latinx communities. For example, I was the co-host of Puentes Culturales, a bilingual radio show on WRKE during my time as Assistant Professor at Roanoke College, VA (United States).