Wílmar López-Barrios

Wílmar López-Barrios holds a B.A. in Spanish and English studies from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia, and a M.A. in Linguistics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics track. His research encompasses both phonetics and phonology as he investigates sounds and melodies of human languages. Specifically, He focuses on prosody, and uses experimental techniques to disclose form-function mappings in tonal and intonational contours. Ever since he began exploring intonational variation of bilingual Creole speakers, he has been doing fieldwork in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, with Palenquero Creole speakers. His second area of specialization is dialectology, which he combines with spatial autocorrelation and functional principal component analyses.