Area of expertise:L2 phonological acquisition, language documentation and revitalization, Mesoamerican languages, Phonetics and phonology
Topics of interest:Linguistics, Mesoamerican languages, phonetics/phonology, Spanish
Bio
I am a linguist with broad interdisciplinary interests in Spanish and indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. I work on phonetics and phonology, second-language (L2) acquisition, language contact, as well as language documentation and revitalization. In my latest research, I explore how first-language (L1) speakers of Salvadoran Spanish acquire aspects of the phonology of Nawat, the critically endangered indigenous language of El Salvador that is currently undergoing a revitalization process. I am also a Nawat teacher at Tamachtiluyan Alan R King, a free Nawat school that I co-founded in 2020.
Grants and Awards
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence, The Ohio State University (2022)
Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, The Ohio State University (2020)
Felice M Grad Endowed Scholarship, The Ohio State University (2020)
Recent / Major Publications
Salgado, H. & Pinta, J. (2024) “The Perceptual Origin of Added Glottals in Spanish Loans in Modern Nahuan”. To appear in International Journal of American Linguistics, 90(1)
Cárcamo, H., Guardado, M., Aquino, C., Domínguez, A., Ordóñez, G., & Salgado, H. (2023) Aprendiendo náhuat en el siglo 21: Achtu taksalis. University of Alberta. Webpage: https://openeducationalberta.ca/nawatse/