Education

PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 2002.
Thesis title: “Phonetic Similarity, Syllabification and Phonotactic Constraints in the Acquisition of a Second Language Contrast”.
Thesis available from the  Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, Dissertation series, published by the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.
PhD thesis Abstract [html version]  [Abstract PDF version]
Table of Contents (includes links to Thesis Chapters) [html version]

Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 1996.
MA thesis title: “Voicing in Final Obstruents and the Transfer of Phonological Rules in Catalan-English Interlanguage”.

Llicenciatura (~BA) in English Philology from the Universitat Central de Barcelona. 1991.