Research Interests:
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Dissertation:
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociophonetics
- Phonetics & Phonology
- Language Attitudes & Language Ideologies
- Bilingualism
- SLA & Study Abroad
- Dialects/Languages in Contact
- Variational Pragmatics
Peer-reviewed Publications:
- Regan, B., & Martinez, J. (2023). The indeterminacy of social meaning linked to 'Mexico' and 'Texas' Spanish: Examining monoglossic language ideologies among heritage and L2 Spanish listeners. Languages 8(4): 266.
- Tieperman, R., & Regan, B. (2023). A variationist corpus analysis of the definite article with personal names across three varieties of Spanish (Chilean, Mexican, Andalusian). Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 9(1)/10: 1-27.
- Mastrantuono, A., & Regan, B. (2023). Present Perfect and Preterit Variation in the Spanish of Lima and Mexico City: Findings from a corpus analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. First View.
- Regan, B. (2023). Individual differences in the acquisition of language-specific and dialect-specific allophones of intervocalic /d/ by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers studying abroad in Sevilla. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 65-92.
- Regan, B. (2022). Guadalupe or Guadaloop?: Place-name variation and place identity in Austin, Texas. American Speech 97(4): 441-482.
- Archer, C., & Regan, B. (2022). An analysis of the yeísmo merger in Córdoba, Argentina: A synchronic coexistence of all diachronic processes of lleísmo to yeísmo sound change. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 28(2), Article 2.
- Regan, B. (2022). La percepción social del seseo sevillano y sus implicaciones para la norma sevillana. Lingüística en la Red, Núm. XIX, 1-27.
- Regan, B. (2022). The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo). Language in Society 51(3): 481-510.
- Regan, B. (2021). Analyzing Andalusian coronal fricative norms (ceceo, seseo, and distinción) using a sociophonetic Demerger Index. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish. Routledge.
- Regan, B. (2021). Differing effects of speaker and listener characteristics on the perception of two traditional Andalusian features undergoing dialect leveling. In Luis A. Ortiz-López & Eva-María Suárez-Büdenbender (Eds.), Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions, pp. 95-116. Routledge.
- Regan, B. (2020). Intra-regional differences in the social perception of allophonic variation: The evaluation of [tʃ] and [ʃ] in Huelva and Lepe (Western Andalucía). Journal of Linguistic Geography 8(2), 82-101.
- Regan, B. (2020). Extending Pillai scores to fricative mergers: Advancing a gradient analysis of a split-in-progress in Andalusian Spanish. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 26(2): Article 13.
- Regan, B. (2020). El [ʃ]oquero: /tʃ/ variation in Huelva capital and surrounding towns. Estudios de fonética experimental XXIX: 55-90.
- Regan, B. (2020). The split of a fricative merger due to dialectal contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-speech. Language Variation and Change 32(2): 159-190.
- Regan, B. (2019). Dialectology meets Sociophonetics: The social evaluation of ceceo and distinción in Lepe, Spain. In W. Chappell (Ed.), Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, pp. 85-121. John Benjamins.
- Regan, B. (2017). A linguistic analysis of Quechua borrowings in Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido: National ideology seen through linguistic incorporation. Hispanic Studies Review 2(2): 224-253.
- Regan, B. (2017). A study of ceceo variation in Western Andalucía (Huelva). Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10(1): 119-160.
- Regan, B. (2016). Prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of ¡Hombre! as a discourse marker. In Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence (IHLL 12), A. Cuza, L. Czerwionka, & D. Olson (eds.), pp. 211-239. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Dissertation:
- Regan, B. (2017). The Effect of Dialect Contact and Social Identity on Fricative Demerger. PhD Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
Invited talk at the Universidad de Málaga (VII Jornadas Doctorales de Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción). Málaga, Spain. June 2022.
Presentation at 9th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS9). Queens, NY. April 2018.
Presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). Washington, D.C. October 2016.
Plaza de San Pedro, Huelva capital, Andalucía, España