José Ignacio HualdeJosé Ignacio Hualde is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been teaching for over 30 years. He specializes in Phonology, Phonetics andHistorical Linguistics. He is author of Basque Phonology (1991), Euskararen azentuerak [the accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish (CUP, 2005, Spanish ed., Los sonidos del español 2014), among other books; co-author of The Basque Dialect of Lekeitio (1994) and co-editor of Generative Studies in Basque linguistics (1993), Towards a History of the Basque Language (1995), A Grammar of Basque (2003), and Laboratory Phonology 9 (2007), among other books. He has also published articles and book chapters on aspects of Basque, Spanish, Romance linguistics, Phonology and Historical Linguistics. Read More Read Less