Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Stacey Hanson is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics. She received her B.S. in psychology and Spanish and her M.A. in Spanish from Florida State University where she successfully defended a thesis project on the acquisition of the voiceless interdental fricative in second language learners of Spanish. Stacey’s research interests include phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Her current research focuses on the use of uptalk in Mexican Spanish.