Status: Sixth year PhD student

Email: mrm359 [at] nyu [dot] edu

TA for: Sound and Language (Fall 2009)
Office hours: M 1-2pm, Th 2-3pm (or by appointment)
Office: Room 307, Linguistics Dept, 10 Washington Place

Past TA-ships:
Language in Latin America (Spring 2009)
Sound and Language (Fall 2005)
Language and Liberation (Spring 2007)
Language (Fall 2006)
Language in Latin America (Fall 2005)

Research interests:
Sociophonetics, Perception and Production of Voicing, Comparative Spanish Phonology, Puerto Rican Spanish, Argentinean Spanish, Superlative Constructions, Languages & Dialects in Contact, Lexicography

Education:

• M.A. in Linguistics, 2007
New York University


• M.A. in Spanish Lexicography, 2004
Escuela de Lexicografía Hispánica, Real Academia Española


• B.A. in Russian Language & Literature, 2002
Columbia University

Publications:
2008. Simonet, Miquel, Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, and Mercedes Paz. "Preliminary Evidence for Incomplete Neutralization of Coda Liquids in Puerto Rican Spanish." In Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, ed. Laura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele, 72-86. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1715.
2007. Rohena-Madrazo, Marcos. "Superlative Movement in Puerto Rican Spanish and General Spanish." NYU Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1, Spring 2007. (pdf)

Presentations:
2008. "Buenos Aires Spanish in real time: the advancement of palatal fricative devoicing", Paper presented at NWAV 37, Rice University, Houston, TX, November 7, 2008.
2008. "Devoicing of palatal fricatives in Buenos Aires Spanish: a sociolinguistic profile in real time", Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, October 25, 2008.
2006. "The Vernacular in the Laboratory: The Case of Coda /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish" with Miquel Simonet and Mercedes Paz, Paper presented at NWAV 35, The Ohio State University, November 11, 2006.
2006. "Acoustic profiling of coda liquids in Puerto Rican Spanish" with Miquel Simonet and Mercedes Paz, Paper presented at LASP3 Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, University of Toronto, September 9, 2006.
2006. "Superlative Preposing in Puerto Rican Spanish" Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Rutgers University, New Jersey, April 2, 2006.
2005. "The Low Back Vowel Distinction in New York City English" with Kara Becker, Jocelyn Doxsey, and Amy Wong, Poster presented at NWAV 34, New York University, October 21, 2005. (Abstract)
2005. "Superlative Movement in Puerto Rican Spanish" CUNY/SUNY/NYU Mini-Conference, New York, April 16, 2005. (Abstract)

Languages spoken [other than English]:

• Spanish
• Russian
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• French
• Portuguese
• Italian

Nifty dictionaries:
DRAE (Spanish)
Merriam-Webster (English)
Rambler (Russian)
Diccionarios.com (multilingual)

Links of use (and procrastination):
MenuPages
The New York Times
PhD Comics