
- rbessett@ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-1905
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Arts & Humanities Bldg (RWAC)
Room 339
Mail Code: 0410
Associate Teaching Professor
Ryan Bessett holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona. He coordinates the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program and the Intermediate Spanish as a Second Language series within the department. His research interests center around language variation and change, Spanish in contact, bilingualism, Spanish as a heritage language, language acquisition, and Spanish phonology. He is especially interested in the Spanish spoken around the US-Mexican border and through variationist methodology differentiating contact-induced change from language-internal variation by comparing the Spanish of monolingual speakers in Sonora, Mexico to the Southern Arizona bilingual Spanish of speakers who come from families from Sonora.
Languages: Spanish, English