{"id":71,"date":"2022-05-02T15:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:10:38","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Petra E. Avillan Le\u00f3n, Ph.D. &#8211; researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petra E. Avillan Le\u00f3n, assistant professor in the English Department at the Faculty of General Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics of the Anglophone Caribbean from the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus. Her dissertation entitled <em>The View of the Speaker and the Perception of Threat in the Development of Language Endangerment Typologies <\/em>focuses on the perception of speakers of endangered languages.\u00a0 Her publications include \u201c<em>Trinidadian French Creole an Endangered Language of the Caribbean; Should we care?<\/em> \u00a0&#8220;(2012), <em>Creoles and Acts of Identity: Convergence and Multiple voicing in the Atlantic Creole<\/em> (2013), and <em>The Importance of Including the Perception of the Speakers in Language Endangerment Situations: Lessons Learned <\/em>(2016), among others. In 2016 she coordinated the &#8220;1st Creole and Endangered Languages Colloquium&#8221; at the College of Humanities of the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yolanda Rivera Castillo, Ph.D. &#8211; co-researcher\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yolanda Rivera Castillo, is a full profesor at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus. She obtained her academic formation at the universities of Puerto Rico, Wisconsin-Madison and California Davis. Most of her publications are related to Linguistics, although she also has published poetry. Her articles can be found in professional journals such the\u00a0<em>Journal of Portuguese and Spanish Lexically-Based Creoles<\/em>\u00a0(2013), STUF (<em>Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung<\/em>) (2006) y\u00a0<em>Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages<\/em>\u00a0(2004). She has also published books related to her field. The most recent being \u00a0<em>Sonority Across Languages<\/em>\u00a0(2016) and the \u201cEnciclopedia de Ling\u00fc\u00edstica Hisp\u00e1nica\u201d (2016). Her book, <em>Papiamentu Structural Features,\u00a0<\/em>was published by the Dutch editorial Brill. Her research covers topics of phonology, syntax, and the documentation of creole languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petra E. Avillan Le\u00f3n, Ph.D. &#8211; researcher Petra E. Avillan Le\u00f3n, assistant professor in the English Department at the Faculty of General Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics of the Anglophone Caribbean from the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus. Her dissertation entitled The View of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/indilpe-caribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}