Rebecca Ronquest

Rebecca Ronquest is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at North Carolina State University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from Indiana University, with additional master's degrees in Hispanic Linguistics and General Linguistics.

Her research focuses on:

• Acoustic analysis of Spanish dialects in the US Southeast
• Bilingual sound systems and heritage language phonetics
• Sociophonetic variation in language contact zones
• Forensic linguistics applications

Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on Spanish language contact phenomena, dialect formation, and sociophonetic variation in immigrant communities. Recent work examines intrusive vowels in Yucatan Spanish and address forms in Argentine/Central American communities.