He earned his PhD in Spanish Linguistics, with a specialization in Phonetics and Phonology, from the University of California, Davis in 2006. His research interests include Phonetics and Phonology, Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Romance Linguistics. His recent publications have concentrated on consonant clusters in Spanish, Portuguese, and Pali; podcast usage in the classroom; and synonymy in Contemporary United States Spanish. Versions: