Ray Harris-Northall
Professor, Ph. D., University of Birmingham (U.K.)
Professor Harris's teaching and research interests include Spanish phonetics and phonology,
the history of the Spanish language, contemporary Peninsular Spanish language, Peninsular dialectology,
and sociolinguistic approaches to language change. He is the author of Weakening Processes in the History
of Spanish Consonants (1990), co-editor with Thomas D. Cravens of Linguistic Studies in Medieval Spanish
(1991), editor of the Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (1997),
and has published semi-paleographic transcriptions of medieval texts, as well as articles on Hispanic linguistics
in specialized journals in North America and Europe. In 2003, together with Emeritus Professor John Nitti,
he published a CD-ROM version of the Boyd-Bowman Léxico hispanoamericano, with custom-designed software.
This project was supported with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities over a period of seven years.
Currently Professor Harris is working on a number of projects concerning the standardization of Peninsular Spanish.
He is a member of the Advisory Board to Romance Philology.
