Sarah Chetty Rowe

Sarah Chetty Rowe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University. She holds a Master’s in Hispanic Linguistics from NC State and focuses on acoustic phonetics, heritage/bilingual sound systems, and Spanish sociolinguistics. Her research explores variables in bilingual communities, particularly in the Southeastern U.S.

• Affiliations: Department of World Languages and Cultures, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (implied).

Her work examines phonological patterns in heritage and immigrant Spanish, with a focus on acoustic and articulatory realizations of consonants and vowels. Recent publications include studies on voice onset time and vowel production in bilingual speech.

Rowe has presented at conferences such as CASPSLaP and SLINKI, discussing topics like the /b/-/v/ distinction in U.S. Spanish and vowel production in bilingual contexts. She emphasizes applied linguistics and community-engaged research.