Donny Vigil
Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar
Donny Vigil received a Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar award for 2021 to support research on “Variable Production of the Voiceless Velar Fricative /x/ in Traditional New Mexico Spanish”. At the time of the award, he was Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Vigil’s research and teaching areas of interest include Hispanic language and linguistics: phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics of Spanish and Portuguese, history of the Spanish language, language contact, language variation and change, New Mexico Spanish, clicks, pragmatics, discourse analysis and translation.
In "Variable Production of the Voiceless Velar Fricative /x/ in Traditional New Mexico Spanish," Vigil will categorize, code, and analyze variants of the voiceless velar fricative /x/ as found in the previously recorded speech of Spanish speakers from the New Mexico-Colorado Spanish Survey (NMCOSS) (Bills and Vigil 2008). He plans to use speech analysis software to code and analyze the recordings, then, do a variationist examination of the quantified results of the coded tokens to determine which external and internal factors may condition the use of variants.
