Harry Howard

Harry Howard is Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese in Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from University of North Carolina (1980), Master of Arts (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) in Linguistics from Cornell University. His research specializes in Iberian linguistics with focus areas including Spanish phonetics, dialectology, and neuromimetic modeling of language phenomena.

Professor Howard's publications integrate computational linguistics with cognitive neuroscience, examining semantic change through neural network models and memory system architectures. Recent work explores connectionist approaches to quantifiers and collective predicates. His linguistic fieldwork includes extensive research in Latin America supported by multiple Mellon Fellowships.

Research Funding and Honors:

• BORSF Grant for Foreign Language Studies Innovation (2000-2001)
• Recurrent Mellon Fellowships for Latin American research (1993-1999)
• Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund Grants (1994-1997)
• Linguistic Society of America Summer Fellowships (1987-1988)

Departmental service includes appointments as Acting Chair and Director of Linguistics. Professor Howard teaches graduate seminars on Iberoamerican dialectology and phonetics, and serves as undergraduate advisor for Spanish majors.