I am a 3rd year doctoral student in Romance Languages: Spanish and French Linguistics. My doctoral dissertation topic is two-pronged: the sociophonetics of the Hot Latin music most highly consumed by the American audience in 2018-2020 per Billboard.com of J Balvin and Bad Bunny —AND— Spanish-English-French lyrical codemixing in top popular music.
J Balvin and Bad Bunny – two of the top, most consumed Latin artists in the US and in the world, per Billboard.com
MY LATEST RESEARCH, ARTICLES, & PRESENTATIONS
"Coda /s/ of 3 top Medellín-born music artists: A comparative acoustic study of their music and interviews"
Presented at LASSO (Linguistic Association of the Southwest) Conference 2020 - 24-26 Sept 2020
Presented at The University of Alabama Languages Conference on 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2020
Karol G • J Balvin • Maluma
El merengue y la bachata: La música típica de la República Dominicana
Presentation - Guest lecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on 21 Oct 2020
Black Latinos are recognized, but the 2020 Census is finally legitimizing the Native heritage of many Latinx
“Elision, Aspiration, or Maintenance of /s/ in Coda: a Comparative Acoustic Study of the Music and Interviews of 3 top Puerto Rican Music Artists.”
Presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at Auburn University on 10-12 Oct 2019.
Artistic Codemixing of the French singer, Willy William, in “Mi Gente” (Hayes, 2020)
The intersection of Native American and Latino identities, evidenced in popular music (Hayes, 2020)
My thoughts on DACA and Dreamers (Op-Ed, published Oct 2017)
Presenter with Dr. Erin O'Rourke, Dr. Anne McDivitt: “Bringing the Past to Life: Old Spanish in the Digital Age.” The University of Alabama 2020 Faculty Tech Showcase on 28 Feb 2020. Key topics: historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, and applied technology.
Hayes, E. N. (2020). "Franglais" in popular YouTube content and in social media [Unpublished manuscript in preparation]. Department of Modern Languages and Classics, The University of Alabama.
The paper is based on the code switching of the French-English bilingual comedian, Paul Taylor: https://youtu.be/Pae2AMnmUVA
