Professor, Spanish and Linguistics, Linguistics Minor Coordinator and Advisor
langrijr@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Office
Keezell 423
Fall 2026 Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00-3:00pm
Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm
and by appointment.
Education
Ph.D. and M.A. University of Texas at Austin (Hispanic linguistics)
Courses
Span 101: Elementary Spanish 1
Span 102: Elementary Spanish 2
Span 310: Intro to Spanish linguistics
Span 311: Spanish-English Contrastive Linguistics
Span 315: Sounds of Speech (formerly Spanish Phonetics)
Span 320: Culture and Communication in Context
Span 404: Spanish in the US
Span 448: Spanish dialect variation
Span 311: Spanish-English Contrastive Linguistics
Span 315: Sounds of Speech (formerly Spanish Phonetics)
Span 320: Culture and Communication in Context
Span 404: Spanish in the US
Span 448: Spanish dialect variation
Ling 311: Study of Language Structures
Ling 410: Introduction to Romance Linguistics
Research and teaching interests
Sociolinguistics, Experimental Phonetics/Phonology, Prosody and Intonation,
Language variation and change, Research Methods, Language Ideology, Dialectology
Publications
Lang-Rigal, Jennifer. (2025). “The peaks and valleys of Córdoba [speech]: Suprasegmental cues and their role in the perception of dialect” in M. Amengual & A. Dalola (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. John Benjamins. pp. 96-114. DOI: 10.1075/ihll.45.04lan
Lang-Rigal, Jennifer (2023). “Foreign Language Anxiety and Second Language Fluency in Study Abroad”. In 16th Annual International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI2023), Sevilla, Spain, pp. 6232-6240. https://library.iated.org/
doi: 10.21125/iceri.2023.1556
Lang-Rigal, Jennifer (2020). “Prosody perception meets language attitudes: Vowel lengthening, status judgments, and stereotypes in Argentina.” In T. Bugel and C. Montes-Alcalá (eds.) New Approaches to Language attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25, pp. 12-38. John Benjamins.
Lang-Rigal, Jennifer & Galerreta-Aima, Diana. (November 2019). “Improving students’ confidence in speaking a second language: Using TalkAbroad [videoconference with native speakers] in Spanish courses”, 12th Annual International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI2019), Sevilla, Spain. http://library.iated.org/
Lang-Rigal, J. (2015). “La percepción del habla de Córdoba, Argentina: Una prueba que combina las actitudes con la identificación de dialecto.” Signo y Seña, 28, pp. 111-138. Buenos Aires: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. http://revistas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/sys/article/view/268
Lang-Rigal, J. (2015). “Regional Variation in the Devoicing of the Alveopalatal Fricative in Argentina”. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXIV, by Celdrán, Eugenio Martínez (Ed.), Universitat de Barcelona. http://stel.ub.edu/labfon/sites/default/files/4_LANG-RIGAL.pdf
Lang-Rigal, J. (2015) “Dialect identification and listener attributes: Do you hear la tonada?”. Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013 [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4], by Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 269–292.
https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.4
Lang-Rigal, Jennifer. 2011. Perception of Narrow Focus Prosody in Buenos Aires Spanish. In Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, ed. Scott M. Alvord, 118-126. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/larp/5/paper2640.pdf
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