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José Alberto Elías-Ulloa

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Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2006, Rutgers University
Email: Jose.Elias-Ulloa@stonybrook.edu

José Elías-Ulloa specializes in phonetics and phonology. His main interests are the study of prosody (syllable weight, prosodic structure, intonation) and the interaction with segmental phenomena. In particular, he studies the prosody of indigenous languages in contact with Latin American Spanish as well as the varieties of Spanish that emerge from that contact. He has conducted several fieldtrips in Peru, and research on the Spanish and Amazonian languages spoken there.

Selected Articles
  • (2017) “Stress Adjustments in Shipibo-Konibo: Noun Loanwords from Spanish” in Amérindia (special issue: Estudios sincrónicos y diacrónicos sobre lenguas Pano y Takana: fonología, morfología y sintaxis), edited by A. Guillaume and P. M. Valenzuela. Vol 39(1), pp.83 – 104.
  • (2016) “The Role of Prominent Prosodic Positions in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages” In The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages, edited by Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler and Leo Wetzels. Vol 12, Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
  • (2016) “The Role of Prominent Prosodic Positions in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages” In The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages, edited by Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler and Leo Wetzels. Vol 12, Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
  • (2011) “Sobre la fonética de las oclusivas glotales y la fonación laringalizada: Casos de lenguas amerindias” [On the phonetics of glottal stops and creaky voice: Case studies from Amerindian languages] In Lengua y Sociedad, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
  • (2010) “Null subjects in Shipibo switch-reference systems” (co-authored with José Camacho), in Information Structure in Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Syntactic Approaches, edited by José Camacho, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Liliana Sánchez. Trends in Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton.
  • (2010) “Shipibo-Spanish: Differences in residual transfer at the syntax-morphology and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces” (co-authored with Liliana Sanchez and José Camacho), in Journal of Second Language Research, SAGE.
  • (2009) “The distribution of laryngeal segments in Capanahua” in International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 75.
  • (2008) “Subject doubling and the mixed null subject system of Capanahua” Proceedings of the conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-III (CILLA-III), University of Texas at Austin.
  • (2005) “Variable syllable weight and quantity-insensitive allomorphy in Shipibo.” In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 35), volume 1.
  • (2004) “Quantity-(in)sensitivity and underlying glottal-stop deletion in Capanahua”, in The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 13. Special Volume Dedicated to the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2004).
Books
  • (2011) Una Documentación Acústica de la Lengua Shipibo-Conibo (Pano): con un Bosquejo Fonológico [An Acoustic Phonetics of Shipibo-Conibo (Pano): with a phonological outline]. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (330 pp).