Nicholas Henriksen

PhD, Indiana University, Linguistics & Hispanic Linguistics
MA, Indiana University, Hispanic Linguistics
BA, Rutgers University, Spanish

I began teaching at Northern Illinois University in August 2010 after receiving a dual PhD in Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics from Indiana University. My research focuses on issues in the phonetics and phonology of different varieties of Spanish from an experimental perspective, working within the fields of sociolinguistics, dialect variation, and diachronic linguistics. My most recent publications are based on the intonational structure of questions and statements in varieties of Spanish spoken in northern, central, and southern Spain, adhering to principles in autosegmental prosodic structure and stylistic (social) variation. My research has been presented at conferences such as Speech Prosody, The Chicago Linguistics Society, Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia, and the Second Language Research Forum.

I spend my summers abroad colleting data, piloting new research protocols, and teaching Spanish. I was employed by the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages in Ciudad Real and León, Spain from 2004 to 2010 and taught Spanish Grammar and Spanish Phonetics to L2 learners of Spanish. Most recently, I directed the NIU Language and Culture study abroad program in Toledo, Spain in June and July 2011. Feel free to check out our blog at www.niuintoledo.blogspot.com.

Recent publications:

Henriksen, Nicholas C. (In press). Initial peaks and final falls in the intonation of Manchego Peninsular Spanish wh-questions. Probus.

Henriksen, Nicholas C. (In press). The intonation and signaling of declarative questions in Manchego Peninsular Spanish. Language and Speech, 55(4).

Henriksen, Nicholas C. (In press). The acoustic correlates of question signaling in Peninsular Spanish: Three sentence types compared.  In Proceedings of the 47th Chicago Linguistics Society. 

Henriksen, Nicholas C., Kimberly L. Geeslin & Erik W. Willis. (2010). The
development of L2 Spanish intonation during a study abroad immersion program in León, Spain: Global contours and final boundary movements. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3, 113-162.

Henriksen, Nicholas C. (2009). Wh-question intonation in Peninsular Spanish: Multiple
contours and the effect of task type. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 8(1), 47-74. 

Personal webpage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~nhenriks/

CV (March 2012): download pdf

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