Campus Directory
Miriam Rodriguez-Guerra
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office: | Warde Academic Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3469 |
| Email: | rodriguez-guerra@sxu.edu |
| Department: | Comm. Sci. & Disorders |
Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Arizona
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Arizona
M.A. in Phonetics and Phonology
Spanish National Research Council (Madrid, Spain)
B.A. in English Language and Literature
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
Areas of Specialization
- Speech
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Bilingualism
- Early Acquisition of Speech
- Applied Linguistics
- Heritage Language
Courses Taught
- CSD 205: Phonetics
- CSD 206: Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanisms
- CSDI 207/CSDIL 207: Speech Sciences
- CSDI 214: Language, Society and Culture
- CSDI 301: Speech Development and Disorders
- CSD 317: Multicultural Aspects of Communication
- CSDI 395/595: Special Topics: The Sounds of Spanish
- CSDI 502: Developmental Disorders of Speech
- CSDI 516: Practicum on How to work with interpreters
- CSDI 594: Foundation of Research in CSD
- CSDI 599: Research
Presentations/Publications/Productions
Nair, V. et al. (2023). Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: Commentary in response to Burda et al. (2022). Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 1(1), 105-112.
Rodriguez-Guerra, M.; Colina, S., & Fabiano-Smith, L. (2023). Interaction in early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals. Lingua, 281.
Colina, S., Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M., Marrone, N., Ingram, M., Navarro, K.J., Arizmendi, G. and Coco, L. (2022), Research Documents for Populations with Limited English Proficiency: Translation Approaches Matter. Ethics & Human Research, 44: 29-39.
Mart铆n-Santana, J. D., Muela-Molina, C., Reinares-Lara, E., & Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M. (2015). Effectiveness of radio spokesperson's gender, vocal pitch and accent and the use of music in radio advertising. BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 18 (3), 143-160.
Selected Presentations
Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M. "Critical Language Awareness and Heritage Language Instruction in Communication Sciences and Disorders" Spanish as a Heritage Language Symposium, Chicago, IL. May 2025 [presentation]
Pichan, C., Cabrelli, J., & Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M. "The Corpus of Multilingual Speech (CoMS): Designing a corpus for L3 phonological research." L3 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan. May, 2024 [presentation]
Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M.; Fern谩ndez-Florez, C.; Ram铆rez-Mart铆nez, M. (2023). "Building Community Inside and Outside the Heritage Language Classroom." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Chicago, Illinois. November 2023 [presentation]
Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M., C. Privette & L. Fabiano-Smith "They sent me to Speech and Hearing because I spoke Spanish. Misdiagnosis of disability in Latinx children." XXVIII Spanish in the U.S. Conference & XIII Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Dallas, Texas, April, 2023 [organized panel & presentation]
Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M., S. Colina. & L. Fabiano-Smith "Between-language interaction in early acquisition of speech. Evidence from gliding in Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers in the Southwestern US." 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar - Satellite Workshop. Mallorca, Spain. June 2022 [presentation]
Colina, S., M. Rodr铆guez-Guerra, N. Marrone, M. Ingram, G. Arizmendi, K. Navarro, & L. Coco "Two approaches to the translation of a health survey: comparing their usability." Biannual Conference of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA), Santa Barbara, California. April 2022 [presentation]
Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M., S. Colina. & L. Fabiano-Smith "Gliding in Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers. A mixed-method analysis of between-language interaction in early acquisition of speech" Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Wake Forest, North Carolina. October 2021 [presentation]
Fern谩ndez-Florez, C., Rodr铆guez-Guerra, M., "Creating Online Community and Cultural Awareness through Virtual Video-Exchanges in the Heritage Language Classroom" AELFE-TAPP. Catalunya, Spain. July 2021 [presentation]