Eduardo García-Fernández

Eduardo García-Fernández graduated with a B.A. in Spanish Philology and a second B.A. in English Philology from the Universidad de Oviedo. He joined the Spanish and Portuguese program at UMass in 2013. After obtaining an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, Eduardo entered the Ph.D. program in 2015. His main research interests are the phonetics and phonology of Spanish and Asturian, with a focus on prosody and intonational meaning. Eduardo’s dissertation investigates the patterns of association between intonational form and pragmatic meaning in Asturian vocatives.