Rate My Professor Michael Shelton

Shelton teaches courses in Spanish language, Hispanic linguistics, and general linguistics, including Introduction to Linguistics (Linguistics 301), syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycho- and neurolinguistics, and historical linguistics. He also chairs the Group Language major and the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Occidental College, and has served as an elected member of the Faculty Council and Academic Planning Committee. Affiliated with the Linguistics program, Cognitive Science department, and Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Shelton's publications include "On the role of the written accent mark in visual word recognition in Spanish" (2021), "The Delayed Naming Task, Phonological Preparation Time, and the Three-syllable Stress Window in Spanish" (2019), "Syllable weight in monolingual and heritage Spanish" (2018), "Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification" (2017), "Spanish Rhotics: More Evidence of Gradience in the System" (2013), "The interaction of subsyllabic encoding and stress assignment: A new examination of an old problem in Spanish" (2012), "The Syllabification of the Spanish On-Glide: A Behavioral Study" (2012), "How Spanish phonotactics informs psycholinguistic models of speech production" (2010), and "Proscriptions…Gaps…and Something in Between: An Experimental Examination of Spanish Phonotactics" (2009). His scholarship has garnered over 50 citations.