Sonia Colina

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I am a linguist who works primarily in two areas: Spanish Phonology and Translation Studies/Applied linguistics (list of select publications).My phonological research is in generative phonology, within the optimality-theoretic framework, and with a focus on syllabification (glides, diphthongs, resyllabification, etc.). I also am also interested in how phonological theory can inform empirical/laboratory work and vice versa. In addition to Spanish, I also work in the phonology of Galician, a Romance language of Spain closely related to Portuguese.Within Translation Studies and Applied linguistics, my areas of research are translation pedagogy, language and translation competence acquisition, and translation quality assessment. I am interested in the connections between communicative translation and language acquisition and in applied translation studies: i.e., applying research findings and conducting research to solve every day problems in translation (e.g., quality assessment). I am equally interested in building bridges between research and practice, be it translation practice (by developing research-based solutions to every-day problems) or translation teaching (by developing principled methodologies and assisting teachers with their implementation). I enjoy working in research projects that involve work in fields where translation is needed (health care, education, http://www.hablamosjuntos.org/mtw/default.toolkit.asp) and doing work with translators and interpreters. This stems from years of work as a free-lance and in-house translator and translation teacher.

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