Nicté Fuller Medina

 

I am a linguist and interdisciplinary scholar with a research focus on language in Belize. I currently lead two ongoing projects which examine the linguistic outcomes of language contact and the historical development of language mixing in spontaneous speech. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact in Belize is a project examining bilingual compound verbs (hacer retire, 'to retire'), mixed DPs (el bike), and Kriol-Spanish codeswitching in contemporary data. The second project, Language, Culture and History: Belize in a Digital Age, aims to develop decolonial frameworks for the curation of legacy sound recordings from Belize. These recordings serve as real-time benchmarks for the study of language change and variation. At the same time, I re-imagine these recordings as cultural patrimony which in turn compels a process of repatriation and restitution thereby interrupting colonial patterns of extractivism in research. 

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Connect with me:

twitter: @DrNicte

email: nfullerm at gmail dot com

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