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
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, 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.