Ana María Pérez Martín

Ana María Pérez Martín is a Professor and Doctor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, affiliated with the Department of Hispanic Philology, Classics, and Arabic and Oriental Studies. She is a member of the research group GIR Sociolinguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, and Applied Linguistics. Her work focuses on sociolinguistic studies of Spanish variation in Canary Islands regions like Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and El Hierro, with emphasis on discourse markers, phonological patterns, and orthography.

Key research interests include analyzing language variation in written and spoken Spanish, particularly focusing on discourse markers (e.g., 'bueno'), vowel elision (/d/ and /s/), and clitic distribution. She has conducted comparative studies across educational levels and regional dialects, contributing to understanding sociolinguistic identity and language change.

Her recent projects include studying social determinants of contemporary Spanish in Gran Canaria and Seville (2024–2028), and sociolinguistic patterns in Las Palmas (2012–2015). These projects were funded by Spain's Ministry of Science and Innovation. Her publications span topics from orthography evaluation tools for university students to probabilistic analyses of phonological features in El Hierro.

Publications highlight methodological rigor, combining corpus linguistics with quantitative approaches. She has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects linking linguistics to education and sociocultural dynamics. Current work emphasizes applied linguistics applications for teaching and diagnostic tools in multilingual contexts.