Michael Gradoville
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Michael Gradoville is an assistant professor of Spanish. He teaches upper-division and graduate-level Spanish linguistics courses in addition to general linguistics courses within the School of International Letters and Cultures. His research interests include usage-based linguistic theory (especially in phonology), sociophonetics, corpus linguistics, quantitative research methodologies in linguistics, and language variation and change. His research activity includes varieties of Spanish and Portuguese from throughout the world. He received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach and carry out research in Brazil on varieties of Portuguese from Brazil, Africa, and East Timor. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Phonetics, Lingua, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, and the International Journal of Bilingualism. Prior to his arrival at ASU, Gradoville taught at the University of New Mexico, Indiana University and Spelman College.
- Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics and General Linguistics, Indiana University
- M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of New Mexico
- B.A. Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico
- B.B.A. Management Information Systems, University of New Mexico
Edited Volume
- Gradoville, Michael, & Sean McKinnon (eds.). 2024. Recent developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Peer-Reviewed Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Proceedings
- Gradoville, Michael. To Appear. The distribution of less commonly taught language enrollments in US higher education. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (JNCOLCTL)
- Gradoville, Michael, Sofía Fernandez, Avizia Long, & Mark Waltermire. 2024. Lectal coherence in a bilingual border community. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17(1): 25-58.
- Gradoville, Michael, Mark Waltermire, & Julie Engelhardt. 2024 [2023]. Variable contrast in Border Uruguayan Spanish /b/. From cognates to orthographic loyalty. Journal of Language Contact 16: 456-493.
- Gradoville, Michael, Mark Waltermire, Audrey Chery, Sofía Fernandez, & Avizia Long. 2023. Language contact effects on Spanish intervocalic /ɡ/ production in Border Uruguayan Spanish. Spanish in Context 20(3): 490-512.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2023. The future of exemplar theory. The handbook of usage-based linguistics, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos & Sonia Balasch, 527-544. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gradoville, Michael, Earl K. Brown, & Richard J. File-Muriel. 2022. The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/. Journal of Phonetics 91
- Brown, Earl K., Richard J. File-Muriel, & Michael Gradoville. 2021. The last stronghold of word-final /s/ in Barranquillero Spanish. Prevocalic word-final /s/ in cohesive bigrams. The Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York City, NY, USA: Routledge.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2021. Diatopic variation in the alternation of para and pa’. The Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York City, NY, USA: Routledge.
- Gradoville, Michael, Max Courval, Paige Elder, Rachel Hom, & Finn Palamaro. 2021. Perceived correctness of nominal gender (dis)agreement by heritage speakers of Spanish. Heritage Language Journal 18(1)
- Gradoville, Michael, Mark Waltermire, & Avizia Long. 2021. Cognate similarity and intervocalic /d/ production in Riverense Spanish. International Journal of Bilingualism 25(3): 727-746.
- File-Muriel, Richard J., Earl K. Brown, & Michael S. Gradoville. 2021. A sociophonetic approach to s-realization in Colombian Spanish. Sociolinguistic approaches to sibilant variation in Spanish, ed. by Eva Núñez Méndez, 246-261. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York City, NY, USA: Routledge.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2021. Variable voicing in Argentine Spanish /ʒ/. Sociolinguistic approaches to sibilant variation in Spanish, ed. by Eva Núñez Méndez, 301-332. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York City, NY, USA: Routledge.
- Waltermire, Mark, & Michael Gradoville. 2020. The interaction of social factors in the realization of intervocalic /d/ in Border Uruguayan Spanish. Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, ed. by Rajiv Rao, 264-292. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2020. On the origins of Portuguese para form variation. Acoustic evidence from reading style. Current theoretical and applied perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics, ed. by Diego Pascual y Cabo & Idoia Elola, 189-214. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2019. The role of individual variation in variationist corpus-based studies of priming. Italian Journal of Linguistics 31(1): 93-124.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2019. A variante pa no português brasileiro. Estudos em variação linguística nas línguas românicas, ed. by Lurdes de Castro Moutinho, Rosa Lídia Coimbra, Elisa Fernández Rei, Xulio Sousa, & Alberto Gómez Bautista, 317-337. Aveiro: UA Editora.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2019. The disappearance of the Morphological Future from educated spoken Carioca Portuguese. Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics. Bridging frames and traditions, ed. by Gabriel Rei-Doval & Fernando Tejedo, 227-245. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom and New York City, NY, USA: Routledge.
- Fafulas, Stephen, Manuel Díaz-Campos, & Michael Gradoville. 2018. Stable variation or change in progress? A sociolinguistic analysis of pa(ra) in the Spanish of Venezuela. Language variation and contact-induced change: The Spanish language across space and time, ed. by Jeremy King & Sandro Sessarego, 223-245. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2017. The cognitive representation of multi-word sequences. A usage-based approach to the reduction of Fortalezense Portuguese para. Lingua 199:94-116
- Gradoville, Michael, Earl K. Brown, & Richard J. File-Muriel. 2016 [2015]. The effect of varying intercepts on findings in sociophonetic data: Some observations from Caleño Spanish. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 2(2): 105-30
- Gradoville, Michael. 2015. Social and stylistic variation in the use of phonetic variants of Fortalezense Portuguese para. Sociolinguistic Studies 9(4): 373-98.
- Brown, Earl K., Michael S. Gradoville, & Richard J. File-Muriel. 2014. The variable effect of form and lemma frequencies on phonetic variation. Evidence from /s/ realization in two varieties of Colombian Spanish. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 10(2): 213-241.
- Díaz-Campos, Manuel, Stephen Fafulas, & Michael Gradoville. 2012. Variable degrees of constituency. Frequency effects in the alternation of pa vs. para in spoken discourse. Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos & Kimberly Geeslin, 75-87. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2012. Task effects in /t/ and /d/ palatalization in Várzea Alegre Portuguese. Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Manuel Díaz-Campos & Kimberly Geeslin, 88-101. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2011. Validity in measurements of fricative voicing. Evidence from Argentine Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, ed. by Scott Alvord, 59-74. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Díaz-Campos, Manuel, Stephen Fafulas, & Michael Gradoville. 2011. Going retro. An analysis of the interplay between socioeconomic class and age in Caracas Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. by Jim Michnowicz & Robin Dodsworth, 65-78. Somerville, MA, USA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Díaz-Campos, Manuel & Michael Gradoville. 2011. An analysis of frequency as a factor contributing to the diffusion of variable phenomena. Evidence from Spanish data. Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Luis A. Ortíz López, 224-38. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Smith, Janet, Tanya Flores, & Michael Gradoville. 2008. An analysis of vowels across word boundaries in Veracruz, Mexican Spanish. Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online. 8.
- Durán Urrea, Evelyn & Michael Gradoville. 2008. De la futuridad a la epistemicidad. La situación actual del tiempo futuro en el español de Nuevo México. Memoria del IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, tomo 2, ed. by Zarina Estrada Fernández, Ana Lidia Munguía Duarte, & Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, p. 131-49. Hermosillo, Son., Mexico: Editorial Unison.
Book Reviews
- Gradoville, Michael. 2013. Review of Language variation – European perspectives II, ed. by Stavroula Tsiplakou, Marilena Karyolemou, & Pavlos Pavlou. Multilingua. Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communcation 32(4): 552-6.
Other Publications
- Gradoville, Michael. 2010. A contribuição da frequência de uso na retenção do Futuro Morfológico no português oral culto de Fortaleza. Estudos sobre a língua culta falada em Fortaleza. Explorando dados do Porcufort, ed. by Clemilton Lopes Pinheiro, 45-90. Fortaleza, CE, Brazil: Tiprogresso/SECULT.
- Bezerra, Lígia & Michael Gradoville. 2010. A influência do gênero no uso de dois marcadores discursivos em elocuções formais. Estudos sobre a língua culta falada em Fortaleza. Explorando dados do Porcufort, ed. by Clemilton Lopes Pinheiro, 185-212. Fortaleza, CE, Brazil: Tiprogresso/SECULT.
- Durán Urrea, Evelyn & Michael Gradoville. 2007. Variation in the future tense of New Mexican Spanish. Texas Linguistic Forum 50.
- Gradoville, Michael. 2006. Reducing the word length-token frequency function to an equation. Divergencias. Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios 4(2): 1-12.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
SPA 419 | Spanish Around the World |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 417 | The Sounds of Spanish |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SLC 792 | Research |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SLC 792 | Research |
SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SPA 544 | Spanish Phonology |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 417 | The Sounds of Spanish |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SLC 691 | Seminar |
SPA 691 | Seminar |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 799 | Dissertation |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 544 | Spanish Phonology |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 493 | Honors Thesis |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 544 | Spanish Phonology |
SPA 417 | The Sounds of Spanish |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 400 | Fundamentals/Span Linguistics |
SPA 194 | Special Topics |
SLC 194 | Special Topics |