Donny Vigil

Dr. Donny Vigil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the College of Liberal Arts, University of St. Thomas. His research focuses on Hispanic linguistics with specialization in phonetics, phonology, dialectology, and sociolinguistics, particularly the Spanish spoken in New Mexico.

His research interests include:

• Acoustic and articulatory phonetics of Spanish
• Dialectology and language variation
• Historical development of Spanish
• Language contact phenomena
• Pragmatics and discourse analysis
• Applied linguistics and translation studies

Dr. Vigil's recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on experimental approaches to Spanish phonetics, examining phenomena such as palatal obstruents, rhotic variation, click detection in discourse markers, and orthographic effects in second language acquisition. His work frequently combines laboratory phonetics with sociolinguistic analysis of Spanish dialects.