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Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka

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Contact Information

4098 LCLB
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Office hours: MW 11:00 – 12:00 AM (or by appointment)
In person or via Zoom.
Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Head TA

Research Interests

  • Prosody
  • Phonology/Phonetics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Dialectology

 

Education

PhD. Spanish, Linguistics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in progress

M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2021

M.A. in Teacher Training - Universidad Internacional de Valencia, 2018-2019.

B.A in Modern Languages and Management - University of Deusto, 2014-2018

 

Grants

Conference Participation Grant (2023)

University Block Grant Fellowship (2023)

Awards and Honors

Darlene Wolf Fellowship (2023)

Courses Taught

SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I (Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020)

SPAN 122: Intensive Elementary Spanish (Spring 2021)

SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2019 and Spring 2020)

SPAN 141: Introduction to Spanish Grammar (Fall 2023)

SPAN 208: Oral Spanish (Fall 2021)

SPAN 303: The Sounds of Spanish (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

SPAN 305: The Structure of Spanish (Summer 2022, Summer 2023)

SPAN 308: Spanish in the US (Fall 2022)

BASQ 401: Beginner's Basque (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)

BASQ 402: Readings in Basque Studies (Spring 2023)

 

SPAN 141/142 Head Teaching Assistant (AYs  2023-2024)

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

Bedialauneta Txurruka, I. (2023). Perception of Spanish Declarative Questions and Statements by L2 Spanish Speakers. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2591-2596). Guarant International.

Bedialauneta Txurruka, I., Zhang, J., & Hualde, J. I. (2022). Euskal doinueren ulermena: Markinako galderak eta baieztapenak. Fontes Linguae Vasconum2022(133), 159-190.

Bedialauneta Txurruka, I, & Hualde, J. I. (2022). Markina Basque. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-27.