Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: bgoodale@uttyler.edu
Building: CAS 245
Department: Literature And Languages
Brandon Goodale
Degrees
B.A., Spanish (Language & Culture). California State University–Northridge 2015
M.A., Spanish (Linguistics). University of Wisconsin–Madison 2017
Ph.D. Spanish (Linguistics). University of Wisconsin–Madison 2024
Biography
Brandon Goodale, Assistant Professor of Spanish, specializes in Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. His primary research interests center on the Spanish varieties of the Southern Cone region of South America, where he primarily works on phonetic and phonological variation, specifically in prosody. His secondary research interests include L2 Spanish phonetics and phonology. He has published a chapter on the effects of a Spanish language house on L2 phonology and is working to publish articles related to his dissertation titled Variation in the Intonation of Uruguayan Spanish Declaratives. As a Fulbrighter to Uruguay in 2022, he created the Voces de Uruguay Linguistic Corpus (VULC) consisting of audio recordings of 533 Uruguayan adults.
He has taught many courses, including Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Composition, and Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics. He is also interested in planning Study Abroad trips for UT Tyler students.
Selected Publications:
Goodale, Brandon J., Rao, Rajiv, Lares, Erwin. The effects of a Spanish language house on L2 phonology: A longitudinal study of Spanish /bdɡ/. Spanish as a second and third language: approaching the linguistics-didactics interface. (ed. by Jonas Grünke, Andrea Pesková & Christoph Gabriel). 2024. pp. 91-118.