Selected Papers
2023 Hayes, E. N. (2023). Meeting in the Middle: Sociophonetic Convergence of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s Coda/s/in Their Artistic Performance Speech. Languages, 8(4), 287. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040287 or https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/287
2021 Hayes, E. N. (2021, February 20). Sociophonetics of Hot Latin music a comparative study of coda s of top Puerto Rican and Colombian music artists. UALC 2021, The University of Alabama. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21463.19361
2020 Hayes, E. (2020, September 25). Coda /s/ of 3 top Medellín- born music artists: A comparative acoustic study of their music and interviews. LASSO (Linguistic Association of the Southwest) Conference 2020. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13038.23367
2020 Hayes, E. N. (2020). Black Latinos are recognized, but the 2020 Census is finally legitimizing the Native heritage of many Latinx. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15829.86241
2020 Hayes, E. N. (2020). The intersection of Native American and Latino identities evidenced in popular music. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13550.64327
2020 Hayes, E. N. (2020). The Artistic Codemixing of the French singer, Willy William, in “Mi Gente” and “Te Quiero.” ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10311.93602
2019 Hayes, E. N. (2019). Ahm, uh, and um: An acoustic study of conversational discourse markers in San Diego, CA bilinguals. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13236.07040/1
Selected Presentations
2024 Upcoming Presenter: “Are Young Miko, Villano Antillano, and Tokischa reflecting their queer Caribbean Latina identity in their sociophonetics? A study of their spontaneous speech and their artistic performance speech.” Presenting with my student, Kyra Ray, at the 2024 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) from Oct. 17-19, 2024.
2024 Upcoming Presenter: “Secrets From Behind the Scenes – Demystifying the Faculty Job Search Process.” Presenting with Lorraine Stinebiser, Director of the Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. 2024 31st Institute on Teaching & Mentoring in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 31-November 3, 2024.
2024 Guest Speaker: “Meeting in the middle: sociophonetic leveling of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s coda /s/ in their artistic performance speech.”
Shared my presntation with Dr Darrin Hetrick’s Research Methods in Linguistics LING 401 course on 24 April.
2024 Presenter: “Meeting in the middle: sociophonetic leveling of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s coda /s/ in their artistic performance speech.”
77th Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference (KFLC)at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky on 18-20 April.
2024 Invited lecture at ATSU on Medical Interpreting: “Medical interpreting: working with the Spanish speaking population in the Phoenix Mesa – Scottsdale, AZ Metro area.” I was invited to come speak to the medical students and some medical doctors about how to work with Spanish speaking and non-English speaking populations, as well as how to handle having an interpreter present in the room when seeing a patient. It took place at the ATSU Kirksville, Missouri campus on 25 Jan.
2023 Presenter: “Latin Music and Dance: How Latin dances and music intersect with Latinx history and cultures.” Presented four sessions. Classical and Modern Languages Festival, at Truman State University on Thursday, Nov 2.
2023 Keynote Speaker for CDI Hispanic Heritage Night: Presented “Socioindexicality: What what you say says about you.” Invited speaker at the first annual Hispanic Heritage Night. Truman State University, 15 Sep.
2023 Panelist for the New Faculty Orientation (as 2nd year): I was invited to present as part of the “What I Wish I’d Known” panel at Truman State University on 15 August.
2023 Presenter: “Technological Resources for Promoting Inclusivity in Language Teaching.” With co-presenter Dr. Erin Joyce, French, Truman State University.
Colloque sur l’enseignement du français langue estrangère, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras on 23-25 Feb.
2022 Presenter: “Motivations for convergence of coda /s/ – Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s artistic performance speech.”
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, hosted virtually by Arizona State University on 3-5 Nov 2022. Presented in Session 8 – Sociolinguistics on Saturday Nov 5th.
2022 Presenter: “Motivations for convergence of coda /s/ – Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s artistic performance speech.”
Celebration of Faculty Scholarship, Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri on Friday, October 21st.
2021 Presenter: “El entrelazamiento del merengue y la bachata con la historia y la cultura dominicana.” with handout
103rd American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese Annual Conference (AATSP), in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, July 10th.
2021 Presenter: “Sociophonetics of Hot Latin music: a comparative study of coda /s/ of top Puerto Rican and Colombian music artists.”
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 2021 (SECOL LXXXVIII) Virtual presentation due to COVID-19 on May 15th.
2021 Presenter: “Sociophonetics of Hot Latin music: a comparative study of coda /s/ of top Puerto Rican and Colombian music artists.”
The University of Alabama Languages Conference (UALC) on Feb 20th.
2020 Invited Lecture: “El merengue y la bachata: La música típica de la República Dominicana” – 50 min talk with handout
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Spanish 416: Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America on Oct 28th.
2020 Presenter: “The sociolinguistics and sociophonetics of Hot Latin Music artists”
Faculty Research Showcase 2020 – The University of Alabama, on Oct 25th.
2020 Presenter: “Coda /s/ of 3 top Medellín born music artists: A comparative acoustic study of their music and interviews.”
The Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) 49th Annual Conference, virtual, on Sept 26th.
2020 Guest Lecture: “The Intersection of Native and Latino identities as seen through popular music” – 50 min talk
The University of Alabama, American Studies 380: Imagining the Indian: Native Americans on Page and Screen on April 6th.
2020 Presenter: “Bringing the Past to Life: Old Spanish in the Digital Age.” (With Dr. Erin O’Rourke, Dr. Anne McDivitt) https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/spanish/
Site created: “De Pedro Sánchez a su mujer, Juana Ramos, en Sevilla, en la colación de San Julián.” [1564, México] https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/spanish/?p=387
The University of Alabama 2020 Faculty Technology Showcase on Feb 28th.
2020 Presenter: “A Comparative Acoustic Study of the /s/ in Coda in the Music and Interviews of 3 Top Colombian Music Artists.”
The University of Alabama Languages Conference (UALC) in Tuscaloosa, Alabamaon Jan 31st.
2019 Presenter: “Elision, Aspiration, or Maintenance of /s/in Coda: A Comparative Acoustic Study of the Music and Interviews of 3 top Puerto Rican Music Artists” 69th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama on Oct 11th.
2019 Presenter: “Turn-taking by Spanish-English Bilinguals in the US”
69th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama on Oct 11th.
2019 Presenter: “Ahm, uh, and um: An acoustic study of conversational discourse markers in San Diego CA bilinguals.”
49th Linguistics Symposium of Romance Languages (LSRL) at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia on May 3rd.
2019 Presenter: “Ahm, uh, um: Conversational discourse markers in bilinguals in San Diego, California.”
2019 Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky on April 12th.
2019 Presenter: “Ahm, este, uh, um: Conversational discourse markers in a bilingual.”
The University of Alabama Languages Conference (UALC) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Feb 9th.
2018 Guest Lecture: The Spanish vowel system – 90 min talk
The University of Alabama, Spanish 484: Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation course on Sept 20th.
Selected Research in Progress
2024 Canadian Scholars Press – co-authoring a French Phonetics/Pronunciation textbook, with an intended audience of upper division French students.
2024 Hayes, E. N. “Franglais” in popular YouTube content and in social media [Unpublished manuscript in preparation].
2024 Hayes, E. N. French-Spanish-English code switching in the lyrics of Maître Gims [Unpublished manuscript in preparation].