Whitney Chappell
Romo Endowed Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact
- MH 4.01.14
- Whitney.Chappell@utsa.edu
Bio
Originally from the Chicago area, Whitney Chappell earned her B.A. in Spanish and English at the University of Illinois, her M.A. in English (Linguistics) at Northern Illinois University, and her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics at the Ohio State University. She moved to San Antonio to work at UTSA in 2013 and fell in love with the bilingual and bicultural character of the city (although she does not love the summer heat). She enjoys teaching classes related to sociolinguistics and variation, and her research explores how Spanish speakers negotiate their identities and map others in social space using variable pronunciations. On a personal note, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, jogging, and listening to podcasts (recommendations always appreciated).
Honors and Awards
2025 Best Research Paper Award from the Academy of Distinguished Researchers. Competitive award honoring top scholarship across the university. Winning paper (with Matt Kanwit):
“Do learners connect sociophonetic variation with regional and social characteristics? The
case of L2 perception of Spanish aspiration,” published in Studies in Second Language
Acquisition.
2021 Researcher of the Year, awarded by UTSA’s College of Liberal and Fine Arts. Competitive award honoring the best scholars in the college.
2022 Nominated for the Piper Professor Teaching Award, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.
2021 Nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
2018 Nominated for the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
“Do learners connect sociophonetic variation with regional and social characteristics? The
case of L2 perception of Spanish aspiration,” published in Studies in Second Language
Acquisition.
2021 Researcher of the Year, awarded by UTSA’s College of Liberal and Fine Arts. Competitive award honoring the best scholars in the college.
2022 Nominated for the Piper Professor Teaching Award, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.
2021 Nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
2018 Nominated for the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Presentations
Invited Keynotes and Talks
2025 “Ideological priming: How biased is our research on bilingualism?” Invited speaker
(Oct.) at the University of Miami (organized by Dr. Andrew Lynch).
2025 “Perceptions of Mexican features among expert, heritage, and L2 listeners.” Keynote (Jun.) speaker at Los espacios comunicativos de México: contactos de idiomas, multilingüismo y variaciones lingüísticas at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
2025 “Accounting for the individual in models of socio-indexical knowledge.” Keynote
(Feb.) speaker at Indiana University’s XXII Diálogos Conference.
2024 “The language of a global health crisis: Community stories throughout the
(Oct.) pandemic.” Keynote speaker at the Global Health Humanities: Coalitions and Communities Symposium at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
2024 “To [v] or not to [v]: Can L2 learners participate in socio-indexical meaning
(March) making?” Keynote speaker at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL).
2023 “¿Cómo se abordan las percepciones sociales? El caso de la aspiración de la /s/.”
(Oct.) Guest speaker at North Carolina State University (organized by Dr. Jim Michnowicz).
2023 “A usage-based account of heritage speakers’ sociolinguistic development.” Keynote (Apr.) speaker at the XXIV Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Texas Tech University.
2022 “Sociolinguistic perceptions of the self and the other: Divisions and connections
(Feb.) between the Global North and South.” Plenary speaker at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s 4th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy 2022).
2021 “¿Cuánto significa un solo sonido? La percepción sociofonética de [z] en Costa
(Jun.) Rica.” Guest speaker at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (organized by Dr. Jannis Harjus.)
2021 “Las destrezas perceptivas de los hablantes de herencia: el caso de la aspiración de la (Apr.) /s/.” Guest speaker in Dr. Elizabeth Kissling’s LAIS: Sociophonetics class at the University of Richmond.
2021 “Sociophonetic perception across language profiles: Native, heritage & L2
(Apr.) evaluations of aspirated /s/.” Guest speaker in Dr. Tim Face’s SPN 5930 Perception in Phonology class at the University of Minnesota.
2020 “Confronting our own linguistic biases: An exploration of heritage speakers’
(Oct.) sociophonetic perception.” Invited talk given for The Ohio State University’s Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium.
2020 “Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance.” Guest speaker in (Sept.) Tom Leslie’s Sociophonetics class at the University of Texas at Austin.
2020 “Reduction processes in Spanish: At the nexus of lo cognitivo, lo (Mar.) articulatorio y lo social.” Keynote at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL). Conference canceled due to COVID-19.
2019 “On the broader relevance of phonetic production: How linguistic variation informs
(Dec.) our social evaluations.” Invited talk given at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2019 “Perception studies shed light on the social motivations behind language variation.” (Nov.) Invited research talk given at Maynooth University, funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland.
2019 “Using R to explore linguistic data.” Workshop given at Maynooth University,
(Nov.) funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland.
2019 “A variant by any other name would make you sound as sweet.” Invited presentation (Nov.) given at Maynooth University, funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland.
2019 “La confluencia de los sonidos y el significado social: una introducción a la
(Nov.) sociofonética.” Invited talk given at the Universitat de València.
2019 “La interpretación social de las variantes fonéticas: nuevos experimentos y nuevas
(Oct.) direcciones de investigación.” Invited talk given at the Universitat de Barcelona.
2019 “The intersection of phonetics and sociolinguistics: The social meaning of sounds.” (Oct.) Invited talk given at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
2019 “La percepción sociofonética: qué es y qué nos enseña sobre las relaciones entre
(Oct.) lengua y sociedad.” Invited talk given at the Universitat d'Alacant.
2019 “On the relationship between salient linguistic information and social perception:
(Mar.) The case of second-generation Spanish speakers in the United States.” Invited talk given at Georgetown University.
2019 “Visualizing sociolinguistic data in R.” Invited R workshop given at Georgetown
(Mar.) University.
2019 “Social and linguistic perception in a heritage language: The socio-indexical
(Mar.) knowledge of second-generation Spanish speakers in the United States. Invited talk given at Texas A&M.
2018 “An introduction to data analysis in R.” Workshop given at The University of Texas
(Nov.) at Austin.
2018 “Hiatus resolution in Managua, Nicaragua.” Guest speaker in Dr. Meghan (Oct.) Armstrong’s Spanish Phonetics and Phonology Graduate Seminar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2018 “El mundo académico de la lingüística.” Guest speaker in Dr. Melissa Wallace’s
(Sept.) Introduction to Graduate Studies class at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
2018 “Sociophonetic perception and the intervocalic [z] in Costa Rican Spanish.” Guest
(Aug.) speaker in Dr. Naomi Shin’s Graduate Seminar on Hispanic Sociolinguistics at The University of New Mexico.
2017 “Best practices of statistical analysis.” Workshop given at The Hispanic Linguistics (Oct.) Symposium at Texas Tech.
2016 “World Spanish(es) and the translator/interpreter: How to successfully tackle
(May) unfamiliar varieties.” Workshop given at the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT) conference.
2015 “Perceptions of intervocalic /s/ voicing: Gendered access to [z]’s indexical field.”
(Oct.) Talk given at The University of Texas at Austin.
2015 “The tangible consequences of invisible forces: How language attitudes shape
(Sept.) language use.” Talk at the International Translation Day Colloquium, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
2014 “La enseñanza de rasgos fonéticos y diferencias dialectales en el aula.” Workshop given at the XVI Encuentro de (Sept.) profesores de español a no nativo hablantes: ‘La variedad lingüística en la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua.’
2014 “Salience and the acquisition of phonological reductions among L2 Spanish
(Feb.) learners.” Invited talk for the UT Austin Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language group.
2013 “Hyperarticulation in Nicaraguan Spanish.” Guest speaker for the UTSA Applied
(Sept.) Linguistics Brown Bag Series.
2013 “Roundtable on applying to graduate school.” Guest speaker for Northern Illinois
(Dec.) University’s English Department Graduate Studies Committee.
2012 “Estudios en la[s, h, ø, z, ʔ] Américas: Intervocalic /s/ phenomena at the word
(Mar.) boundary in Spanish.” Talk given at Northern Illinois University for the
Interdisciplinary Linguistics Initiative.
Conference Presentations
2025 “Language attitudes and stereotypes condition the processing of contact-induced linguistic variants.” 29th Conference on Spanish in the United States & 14th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, Texas A&M and the University of Texas at San Antonio, Apr. 10–12. Presented with Sonia Barnes.
2024 “Amplifying community voices: COVID-19 oral historias in San Antonio.” Texas Language Education Research Conference (TexLER), the University of Texas at San Antonio, November 9.
2024 “Biographical indexicality in comunidades hispanas.” 11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 22–24.
2023 “El papel clave de la tercera ola sociolingüística con respecto a la experiencia individual en comunidades heterogéneas.” LI Simposio de la Sociedad española de lingüística, La Universidad de Murcia, Jan. 23–26. Presented with the panel “Sociolingüística 3.0: de la variación inter-individual a la intra-individual.”
2022 “Immigrant voices, immigrant faces: The confluence of linguistic and visual information in Spaniards’ social evaluations of others.” The 10th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Apr. 7–9. Presented with Sonia Barnes.
2021 “Francheska the yal: Linguistic resources in Natalia Lugo’s mock Puerto Rican welfare queen.” The 50thLinguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) Annual Meeting, Sept. 23–25. Presented with Mary Beaton and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello.
2020 “Sociophonetic knowledge in a home language: How second-generation Mexican Spanish speakers perceive coda /s/ reduction.” 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL 7), The University of New Mexico, Feb. 27–29.\
2019 “Mexican Spanish speakers perceive hyperarticulated [v] differently in male and female voices.” Going Romance 2019, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Nov. 28–29. Presented in the special session “Gender in Romance.”
2018 “Of social types and sibilance: The sociophonetic perception of sheísmo and zheísmo in Buenos Aires Spanish.” The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 22 (HLS), The University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 25–27. Presented with Christina García and Rachel Martell.
2018 “Mexican listeners’ evaluations of [v] in native, heritage, and L2 speech.” The 9th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS), Queens College/City University of New York, Apr. 4–7.
2017 “Heritage speakers’ treatment of new information.” The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 21 (HLS), Texas Tech University, Oct. 26–28.
2016 “Sociophonetic perception of intervocalic [z] in Costa Rican Spanish.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45 (NWAV), Simon Fraser University, Nov. 3–6.
2016 “Allophonic and phonemic perception in Costa Rican Spanish.” The 45th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), The University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 15–17.
2016 “Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the physiological origin and social spread of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish.” The 8th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS), Universidad de Puerto Rico, Apr. 13–16.
2016 “Encouraging heritage Spanish speakers to formally study their home language.” Texas Language Education Research Conference (TexLER), University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 19–20.
2015 “The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies.” The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 19 (HLS), University of Illinois, Sept. 24–27.
2015 “Interdependence of social and linguistic factors: Evidence from /s/ rhotacism in Elche Spanish.” Talk with Francisco Martínez Ibarra at The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Apr. 10–11.
2015 “Rhotacized /s/ in Elche Spanish.” Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC), The University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 20–21.
2014 “Acquisition of the nonstandard among L1 Miskitu L2 Spanish speakers.” The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Apr. 11–12.
2014 “Bilingualism and aspiration: /s/ reduction among indigenous L2 Spanish speakers on the Caribbean coast.” The 7th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS), The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Apr. 3–5.
2014 “Reanalysis of coda /s/ in the phonological system of Nicaraguan Spanish speakers.” Linguistic Society of America 88 (LSA), Minneapolis, Jan. 2–5.
2013 “The hypo-hyperarticulation continuum in Nicaraguan Spanish.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation 42 (NWAV), University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 17–20.
2012 “Coda /s/ innovation in Nicaraguan Spanish.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 16 (HLS), University of Florida, Oct. 25–28
2012 “The glottal stop as a form of hiatus resolution in Managua, Nicaragua.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest 41 (LASSO), Purdue University-Fort Wayne, Oct. 11–13.
2011 “Intonational contours of Nicaraguan Granadino Spanish and their relationship with pragmatic meaning.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 15 (HLS), University of Georgia, Oct. 6–9.
2011 “Intonationally-encoded pragmatic meaning in Granada, Nicaragua.” The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Apr. 8–9.
2010 “Applying a Fuzzy Set Theory to the Spanish subjunctive.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 14 (HLS), Indiana University, Oct. 14–17.
2010 “The importance of spontaneous speech in intonational studies: An analysis of Costa Rican Spanish.” The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), University of Kentucky-Lexington, Apr. 15–17.
2010 “The intervocalic voicing of /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish.” The 5th International
Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS5). North Carolina State University, Apr. 9–10.
2010 “A reanalysis of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Ecuadorian Spanish.” The Ohio State
University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Apr.
23–24.
2009 “Potential intonational language universals.” The Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM), Northern Illinois University, Mar. 20–21.
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
Publications
Books and Special Issues
Chappell, Whitney and Sonia Barnes (eds.). 2023. Social meanings of language variation in
Spanish. Special issue published in Languages. Reprinted in 2024.
Chappell, Whitney and Bridget Drinka (eds.). 2021. Spanish socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and contact. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12.) John Benjamins.
Chappell, Whitney (ed.). 2019. Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception. (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21). John Benjamins.
Reviewed in Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXVIII: 296–307,
Revista de Investigación Lingüística 23: 457–461, Linguist List 32: 897, Spanish in Context 19(2): 373–384.
Articles and Chapters Published in Refereed Journals and Volumes
Barnes, Sonia and Whitney Chappell. 2025. Language attitudes and stereotypes condition the processing of contact-induced linguistic variants. Language and Speech (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251353529
Chappell, Whitney and Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco. 2025. La variación fonológica del español
costarricense. In Manuel Díaz-Campos and Juan M. Hernández Campoy (eds.), Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo (ENCODES), Volumen I, 314–322. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394349135.ch32
Chappell, Whitney. 2025. Foregrounding the social meanings derived from lived experience: Perceptions of Mexican and U.S. Spanish through the lens of biographical indexicality. Spanish Heritage Language Journal 5(1): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2025.2620
Beaton, Mary, Whitney Chappell, and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello. 2024. Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender. Journal of Sociolinguistics 28: 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12655
Chappell, Whitney and M. Sidury Christiansen. 2024. Sociolingüística. In Elisa Gironzetti and Manel Lacorte (eds.) The Routledge handbook of multiliteracies, multimodality and interdisciplinarity in Spanish language teaching, 61–75. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190615-6
Chappell, Whitney, Christina García, and Justin Davidson. 2023. Sociophonetics and fricatives. In Christopher Strelluf (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics, 176–194. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003034636-9
Barnes, Sonia and Whitney Chappell. 2023. Introduction to the Special Issue Social Meanings of Language Variation in Spanish. Languages 8(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040283
Chappell, Whitney and Sonia Barnes. 2023. Stereotypes, language, and race: Spaniards’ perception of Latin American immigrants. Journal of Linguistic Geography: 1–15. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2023.5
Chappell, Whitney and Matthew Kanwit. 2022. Do learners connect sociophonetic variation with
regional and social characteristics? The case of L2 perception of Spanish aspiration. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 44(1): 185–209. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000115
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Heritage Mexican Spanish speakers’ sociophonetic perception of /s/ aspiration. Spanish as a Heritage Language 1(2): 167–197. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2021.1131
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Mexicans and Mexican Americans’ perceptions of themselves and each other: Attitudes toward language and community. In Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López and Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender (eds.), Topics in Spanish linguistic perceptions, 138–160. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054979-10
Drinka, Bridget and Whitney Chappell. 2021. New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics. In Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka (eds.), Spanish socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and contact, 1–14. John Benjamins.
García, Christina, Whitney Chappell, and Rachel Martell. 2021. The diffusion of sheísmo and perceptions of porteñidadin Buenos Aires Spanish. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (ed.), Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, 159–170. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-16
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Phonetic sensitivity does not condition variant-based social sensitivity: The case of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (ed.), Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, 125–136. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-14
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. /s/ weakening in Nicaragua. In Eva Núñez-Méndez (ed.), Sociolinguistic approaches to sibilant variation in Spanish, 217–245. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003153948-11
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’: The Spanish sound system in contact with Miskitu. In Sandro Sessarego and Manuel Díaz-Campos (eds.), Aspects of Latin American Spanish dialectology: A book in honor of Terrell A. Morgan, 181–203. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.32.08cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2020. Social contact and linguistic convergence: The reduction of intervocalic /d/ in Bilwi, Nicaragua. In Rajiv Rao (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, 83–102. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.28.04cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2020. Perceptions of Spanish(es) in the United States: Mexicans’ sociophonetic evaluations of [v]. In Scott Alvord & Greg Thompson (eds.), Spanish in the United States: Attitudes and variation, 31–55. Routledge. https://doi-org.libweb.lib.utsa.edu/10.4324/9780429289125
Chappell, Whitney, John Nix, and Mackenzie Parrot. 2020. Social and stylistic correlates of vocal fry in a cappellaperformances. Journal of Voice 34(1): 156.e5–156.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.06.004
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Caribeño or mexicano, profesionista or albañil?: Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance in Mexican and Puerto Rican voices. Sociolinguistic Studies 12(3–4): 367–393.https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.34154
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized <v> in the speech of native and heritage voices. In Whitney Chappell (ed.), Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception, 240–264. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.09cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field. In Whitney Chappell (ed.), Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception, 2–12. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.01cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Phonological (in)visibility: The perception of reduced Spanish vowels among L1-Spanish speakers, L2-Spanish learners, and English monolinguals. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5(3), 435–463. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.17034.cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. The role of lexical associations and overgeneralizations in heritage Spanish perception. Heritage Language Journal 15(2): 151–172. https://doi.org/10.46538/hlj.15.2.1
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies. In Jonathan E. MacDonald (ed.), Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, 143–168. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.15.08cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. Costa Rican Spanish speakers’ phonetic discrimination. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXVI: 13–61.
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. Las ideologías lingüísticas de los miskitus hacia la lengua indígena (el miskitu) y la lengua mayoritaria (el español). Hispanic Studies Review 2(2): 117–138.
Chappell, Whitney and Christina García. 2017. Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10(1): 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2017-0001
Chappell, Whitney & Francisco Martínez Ibarra. 2017. Rhotacism of /s/ in Elche Spanish: Social and linguistic factors conditioning the variant. In Juan Colomina-Almiñana (ed.), Contemporary advances in theoretical and applied Spanish linguistic variation, 43–62. The Ohio State University Press.
Chappell, Whitney. 2016. On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. Language Variation and Change 28(3): 357–378. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394516000107
Chappell, Whitney. 2016. Bilingualism and aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. In Sandro Sessarego & Fernando Tejado-Herrero (eds.), Spanish language and sociolinguistic analysis, 261–282. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.8.11cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Linguistic factors conditioning glottal constriction in Nicaraguan Spanish. Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica 27(2): 1–42.
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach. Spanish in Context 12(2): 221–254. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.12.2.03cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2014. Casual speech or fast speech?: A qualification about /s/ reduction. International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest 32(2): 131–154.
Other Publications (Conference Proceedings, Rejoinders, Working Papers, etc.)
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. Capítulo 5. Lingüística. In Francisco Marcos-Marín (ed.), Humanidades hispánicas: lengua, cultura y literatura en los estudios graduados, 121–151. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14319
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. On Spanglish: Denominator of linguistic hybridity or sociocultural identity? Hispania 100(5): 41–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2018.0007
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Los bajamientos vocálicos en el quechua ancashino: un análisis fonético y fonológico. Aporte Santiaguino 8(1): 117–128. https://doi.org/10.32911/as.2015.v8.n1.249
Chappell, Whitney and Stephanie Schoellman. 2015. When the answer to ¿Hablas español? is complicated: Understanding and combating language loss in U.S. Latin@s. Ovations 10: 29–31.
Chappell, Whitney. 2014. Reanalysis and hypercorrection among extreme /s/-reducers. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20: Iss. 2, Article 5.
Chappell, Whitney. 2013. Intonational contours of Nicaraguan Granadino Spanish in absolute questions and their relationship with pragmatic meaning. In Chad Howe, Sarah E. Blackwell & Margaret Lubbers Quesada (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 119–139. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2880.
Chappell, Whitney. 2011. The intervocalic voicing of /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish. In Jim Michnowicz & Robin Dodsworth (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, 57–64. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #250.
Chappell, Whitney and Sonia Barnes (eds.). 2023. Social meanings of language variation in
Spanish. Special issue published in Languages. Reprinted in 2024.
Chappell, Whitney and Bridget Drinka (eds.). 2021. Spanish socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and contact. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12.) John Benjamins.
Chappell, Whitney (ed.). 2019. Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception. (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21). John Benjamins.
Reviewed in Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXVIII: 296–307,
Revista de Investigación Lingüística 23: 457–461, Linguist List 32: 897, Spanish in Context 19(2): 373–384.
Articles and Chapters Published in Refereed Journals and Volumes
Barnes, Sonia and Whitney Chappell. 2025. Language attitudes and stereotypes condition the processing of contact-induced linguistic variants. Language and Speech (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251353529
Chappell, Whitney and Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco. 2025. La variación fonológica del español
costarricense. In Manuel Díaz-Campos and Juan M. Hernández Campoy (eds.), Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo (ENCODES), Volumen I, 314–322. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394349135.ch32
Chappell, Whitney. 2025. Foregrounding the social meanings derived from lived experience: Perceptions of Mexican and U.S. Spanish through the lens of biographical indexicality. Spanish Heritage Language Journal 5(1): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2025.2620
Beaton, Mary, Whitney Chappell, and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello. 2024. Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender. Journal of Sociolinguistics 28: 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12655
Chappell, Whitney and M. Sidury Christiansen. 2024. Sociolingüística. In Elisa Gironzetti and Manel Lacorte (eds.) The Routledge handbook of multiliteracies, multimodality and interdisciplinarity in Spanish language teaching, 61–75. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190615-6
Chappell, Whitney, Christina García, and Justin Davidson. 2023. Sociophonetics and fricatives. In Christopher Strelluf (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics, 176–194. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003034636-9
Barnes, Sonia and Whitney Chappell. 2023. Introduction to the Special Issue Social Meanings of Language Variation in Spanish. Languages 8(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040283
Chappell, Whitney and Sonia Barnes. 2023. Stereotypes, language, and race: Spaniards’ perception of Latin American immigrants. Journal of Linguistic Geography: 1–15. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2023.5
Chappell, Whitney and Matthew Kanwit. 2022. Do learners connect sociophonetic variation with
regional and social characteristics? The case of L2 perception of Spanish aspiration. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 44(1): 185–209. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000115
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Heritage Mexican Spanish speakers’ sociophonetic perception of /s/ aspiration. Spanish as a Heritage Language 1(2): 167–197. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2021.1131
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Mexicans and Mexican Americans’ perceptions of themselves and each other: Attitudes toward language and community. In Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López and Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender (eds.), Topics in Spanish linguistic perceptions, 138–160. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054979-10
Drinka, Bridget and Whitney Chappell. 2021. New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics. In Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka (eds.), Spanish socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and contact, 1–14. John Benjamins.
García, Christina, Whitney Chappell, and Rachel Martell. 2021. The diffusion of sheísmo and perceptions of porteñidadin Buenos Aires Spanish. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (ed.), Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, 159–170. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-16
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. Phonetic sensitivity does not condition variant-based social sensitivity: The case of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (ed.), Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, 125–136. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-14
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. /s/ weakening in Nicaragua. In Eva Núñez-Méndez (ed.), Sociolinguistic approaches to sibilant variation in Spanish, 217–245. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003153948-11
Chappell, Whitney. 2021. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’: The Spanish sound system in contact with Miskitu. In Sandro Sessarego and Manuel Díaz-Campos (eds.), Aspects of Latin American Spanish dialectology: A book in honor of Terrell A. Morgan, 181–203. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.32.08cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2020. Social contact and linguistic convergence: The reduction of intervocalic /d/ in Bilwi, Nicaragua. In Rajiv Rao (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, 83–102. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.28.04cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2020. Perceptions of Spanish(es) in the United States: Mexicans’ sociophonetic evaluations of [v]. In Scott Alvord & Greg Thompson (eds.), Spanish in the United States: Attitudes and variation, 31–55. Routledge. https://doi-org.libweb.lib.utsa.edu/10.4324/9780429289125
Chappell, Whitney, John Nix, and Mackenzie Parrot. 2020. Social and stylistic correlates of vocal fry in a cappellaperformances. Journal of Voice 34(1): 156.e5–156.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.06.004
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Caribeño or mexicano, profesionista or albañil?: Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance in Mexican and Puerto Rican voices. Sociolinguistic Studies 12(3–4): 367–393.https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.34154
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized <v> in the speech of native and heritage voices. In Whitney Chappell (ed.), Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception, 240–264. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.09cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field. In Whitney Chappell (ed.), Recent advances in the study of Spanish sociophonetic perception, 2–12. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.01cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2019. Phonological (in)visibility: The perception of reduced Spanish vowels among L1-Spanish speakers, L2-Spanish learners, and English monolinguals. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5(3), 435–463. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.17034.cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. The role of lexical associations and overgeneralizations in heritage Spanish perception. Heritage Language Journal 15(2): 151–172. https://doi.org/10.46538/hlj.15.2.1
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies. In Jonathan E. MacDonald (ed.), Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, 143–168. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.15.08cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. Costa Rican Spanish speakers’ phonetic discrimination. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXVI: 13–61.
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. Las ideologías lingüísticas de los miskitus hacia la lengua indígena (el miskitu) y la lengua mayoritaria (el español). Hispanic Studies Review 2(2): 117–138.
Chappell, Whitney and Christina García. 2017. Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10(1): 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2017-0001
Chappell, Whitney & Francisco Martínez Ibarra. 2017. Rhotacism of /s/ in Elche Spanish: Social and linguistic factors conditioning the variant. In Juan Colomina-Almiñana (ed.), Contemporary advances in theoretical and applied Spanish linguistic variation, 43–62. The Ohio State University Press.
Chappell, Whitney. 2016. On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish. Language Variation and Change 28(3): 357–378. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394516000107
Chappell, Whitney. 2016. Bilingualism and aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. In Sandro Sessarego & Fernando Tejado-Herrero (eds.), Spanish language and sociolinguistic analysis, 261–282. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.8.11cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Linguistic factors conditioning glottal constriction in Nicaraguan Spanish. Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica 27(2): 1–42.
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach. Spanish in Context 12(2): 221–254. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.12.2.03cha
Chappell, Whitney. 2014. Casual speech or fast speech?: A qualification about /s/ reduction. International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest 32(2): 131–154.
Other Publications (Conference Proceedings, Rejoinders, Working Papers, etc.)
Chappell, Whitney. 2018. Capítulo 5. Lingüística. In Francisco Marcos-Marín (ed.), Humanidades hispánicas: lengua, cultura y literatura en los estudios graduados, 121–151. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14319
Chappell, Whitney. 2017. On Spanglish: Denominator of linguistic hybridity or sociocultural identity? Hispania 100(5): 41–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2018.0007
Chappell, Whitney. 2015. Los bajamientos vocálicos en el quechua ancashino: un análisis fonético y fonológico. Aporte Santiaguino 8(1): 117–128. https://doi.org/10.32911/as.2015.v8.n1.249
Chappell, Whitney and Stephanie Schoellman. 2015. When the answer to ¿Hablas español? is complicated: Understanding and combating language loss in U.S. Latin@s. Ovations 10: 29–31.
Chappell, Whitney. 2014. Reanalysis and hypercorrection among extreme /s/-reducers. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20: Iss. 2, Article 5.
Chappell, Whitney. 2013. Intonational contours of Nicaraguan Granadino Spanish in absolute questions and their relationship with pragmatic meaning. In Chad Howe, Sarah E. Blackwell & Margaret Lubbers Quesada (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 119–139. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2880.
Chappell, Whitney. 2011. The intervocalic voicing of /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish. In Jim Michnowicz & Robin Dodsworth (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, 57–64. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #250.
