·         Acoustic motivations of sound variation and change in Romance

·         Phonetic variation and phonological categorization

·         L2 acquisition of variable sound patterns

·         Intonation: description and modeling of Argentine Spanish intonation

1. Quantitative and laboratory approaches to the study of macro and micro sound variation and change in Spanish. Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) grant.

2. An experimental study of the phonetics, phonology and acquisition of obstruent - liquid clusters in French and Spanish (In collaboration with Jeffrey Steele, Department of French, University of Toronto).

3. Development of an on-line Romance Phonetics Database (In collaboration with Jeffrey Steele, Department of French, University of Toronto)

4. Argentine Spanish intonation