Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
In person or via Zoom.
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
SLATE Conference Travel Award (2025)
Fall 2024 Graduate College Travel Grant
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, 2024)
SPAN 142: Spanish in the Professions (Spring 2024)
SPAN 208: Oral Spanish (Fall 2021)
SPAN 252: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2025)
SPAN 303: The Sounds of Spanish (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
SPAN 305: The Structure of Spanish (Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024)
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 and 2024-2023)
Recent Publications
Txurruka, I.B. (2024) Interpretation of Spanish stress by second language learners. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024, 91-95, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-19
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 Vasconum, 2022(133), 159-190.
Bedialauneta Txurruka, I, & Hualde, J. I. (2022). Markina Basque. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-27.