Research

As a sociolinguist, I’m interested in language as a sociocultural and cognitive phenomenon, and in the ways ideology and perspective impact our interpretations of and beliefs about the social world. My current project focuses on the ways how fast we speak manages interactions.

Recent work

Anthony R Velasquez. 2024. The influence of articulation rate on stop lenition in the spontaneous speech of Mexican podcasters. Unpublished manuscript.

Alexia M Hernandez, Brandon Papineau, Marie Tano, Anthony R Velasquez, and Robert J Podesva. 2023. (DH)ere’s more than one way to strengthen a fricative: Voiced interdentals in a diverse sample of Californians. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51, New York, NY.

Anthony R Velasquez. 2023. Pragmatic interpretation of number expressions: Experimental evidence for the ambiguity of numeral semantics. Unpublished manuscript.

Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen, Leyla Kursat, J. Adolfo Hermosillo, Anthony R Velasquez and Rabia Ergin. 2022. The color/size asymmetry in redundant modification replicates cross-linguistically. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2, Philadelphia, PA.