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Scott Sadowsky - Linguistics in Chile
I'm Scott Sadowsky, Professor of Linguistics. I've held appointments at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima, Peru), the University of Cartagena (Cartagena, Colombia), the Catholic University of Chile (Santiago, Chile) and the University of La Frontera (Temuco, Chile). I've also been a Research Associate at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
My main research interests are phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, language contact and corpus linguistics. My latest project, the Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Spoken Chilean Spanish (COSCACH), unites all of these fields.
My research centers on a relatively under-studied variety of Spanish -- Chilean Spanish. There's nothing quite as intriguing as finding mysteries in plain sight, and this geolect is full of them. I also work on Mapudungun, an indigenous language isolate spoken in parts of Chile and Argentina. I'm currently co-directing a project to document and study the phonetic and phonological variation of Mapudungun, called --appropriately enough-- Sounds of Mapudungun.
My teaching centers on phonetics and sociolinguistics, but I've also taught subjects ranging from Praat and palatography and the history of Spanish and language contact. I also do extension -- bringing the fascinating world of linguistics to the general public, by way of ¡Usted sí lo dice!, a blog hosted by cognitive science and humanities site Tercera cultura (in Spanish), as well as informal talks.
Finally, if you're looking for more information on the EMIS socioeconomic stratification system for linguistic research, see here.
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Sadowsky, Scott. 2026.Análisis sociolingüístico del marcador discursivo "cachái": variación de nivel socioeconómico, región, etnica y sexo de un marcador discursivo. In: Lagos Fernández, C., Chávez Fajardo, S. y Fuenzalida Etcheverry, M. Estudios en homenaje al Dr. Gilberto Sánchez Cabezas. Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.
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