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D. Eric Holt
Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

Phone:  (803) 777-0798; 777-4884 (messages)
Fax:      (803) 777-0454
E-mail: holt@sc.edu
Personal web site: http://people.cas.sc.edu/deholt01/

 Education
B.A.:  Occidental College, 1990
M.A.:  Georgetown University, 1994
Ph.D.: Georgetown University, 1997
 
 Teaching Interests
Spanish/Hispanic linguistics (phonetics, phonology and pronunciation; structure of the language (morphology and syntax); history and dialectology); historical linguistics; phonology; linguistic theory; Optimality Theory; Spanish language, composition, stylistics and culture; pronunciation workshops.

Courses with a linguistic emphasis I’ve taught include

SPAN 207 Intermediate Oral Practice (pronunciation practice)
SPAN 317 Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation
SPAN 499 Spanish Culture and Linguistic History (senior seminar)
SPAN 515/LING 504 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
SPAN 517/LING 514 Contrastive English-Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
SPAN 715/LING 734 History of the Spanish Language

LING 710 Introduction to Phonology
LING 712 Phonological Theory
LING 730 Historical Linguistics
LING 805-O Seminar in Optimality Theory

Spanish language, stylistics and culture courses I’ve taught include

SPAN 109, 209, 210, 211, 309, 310, 409

 Research Interests
Hispanic linguistics, phonological theory, historical linguistics, dialectology, language variation and change, Hispanic sociolinguistics.

 Selected Publications and Presentations

Complete listing of publications available at http://people.cas.sc.edu/deholt01

BOOK:
(ed.) Optimality Theory and Language Change. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 56, 459 Pp. 2003.)

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS:
“Optimization of syllable contact in Old Spanish via the sporadic sound change metathesis.” Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 16 (2004). 43-61. (Special issue on historical phonology of Romance, Jean-Pierre Montreuil, ed.)

“Sobre los cambios fónicos esporádicos que optimizan el contacto silábico en el español antiguo: El caso de la metátesis” Proceedings of the XIII Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), Universidad de Costa Rica, February 18-23, 2002. Published on CD-ROM in February, 2004.

“Remarks on Optimality Theory and Language Change.” In Optimality Theory and Language Change. (D. Eric Holt, ed.) 1-30. 2003.

“The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Hispano-Romance.” In Optimality Theory and Language Change. (D. Eric Holt, ed.) 285-305. 2003.

“The articulator group and liquid geometry: Implications for Spanish phonology present and past.” In Caroline Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps, eds., Romance Phonology and Variation. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 85-99. 2002.

DISSERTATION:
The Role of the Listener in the Historical Phonology of Spanish and Portuguese: An Optimality-Theoretic Account.[Available from the Rutgers Optimality Archive ]

COLLOQUIA & WORKSHOPS:
Why do they say that in Spanish?” Students’ questions and their real answers South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Columbia, South Carolina, February 21, 2004.

“‘Reflexive’ verbs, ‘no-fault se’ and other myths about the pronoun se in Spanish.” South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Columbia, South Carolina, March 17, 2000.

“What you need to know to improve pronunciation of Spanish.” South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association, Columbia, South Carolina, February 27, 1999.


Professional Organizations

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
USC Historical Linguistics Research Group (HLRG)
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Chapter President (2004-present)

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