Jorge M. Guitart, from Cuba, is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, which he joined in 1973 after receiving his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Massachusetts, and has published widely in Spanish phonology, Latin American Spanish dialectology, and pedagogical grammar. He has co-authored an introduction to Spanish linguistics and an introduction to Latin American Spanish dialectology as well as two Spanish language textbooks. He is the sole author of Markedness and a Cuban Dialect of Spanish (1976), El caso gramatical en el español en la teoría de los roles semánticos (1998), and Sonido y sentido: teoría y práctica de la pronunciación del español (2004).
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