Matthew Patience

Assistant Professor
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Contact Information

Office Location
DIF302B
Email
mpatience@fsu.edu
Program
Linguistics
Spanish
Hispanic Linguistics (MA and PhD)
Office Hours

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Professor Patience (Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics and the Director of the Spanish Basic Program. He specializes in second language acquisition and phonetics. His current research focuses on three areas: the effectiveness of different methods of pronunciation instruction; crosslinguistic influence of phonetics and phonology in multilingual speakers; and the role of individual differences in L2 speech production.

Research interests
Phonetics and phonology
Second and subsequent language acquisition
Indigenous language revitalization
Applied linguistics
Phonetic and phonological variation in Spanish

Courses taught
Introduction to Language, Language Learning, and Language Instruction (LIN 5744)Acquisition of Spanish Phonology (SPN 5776)

Selected Publications

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  • Patience, M. & Steele, J. (2022). Relative difficulty in the acquisition of the phonetic parameters of obstruent coda voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking learners of French. Language and Speech, 66(3), 625-651. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00238309221114143
  • Colantoni, L., Klassen, G., Patience, M., Radu, M., & Tararova, O. (2022). Perception and production of sentence types by Inuktitut-English bilinguals. Languages, 7(3). 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7030193 
  • Patience, M. & Steele, J. (2022). Relative difficulty in the acquisition of the phonetic parameters of obstruent coda voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking learners of French. Language and Speech. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221114143
  • Patience, M. & Qian, W. (2022). The role of task complexity and dominant articulatory routines in the acquisition of L3 Spanish. Languages, 7(2), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020090
  • Patience, M., Colantoni, L., Klassen, G., Radu, M., & Tararova, O. (2020). The perception and comprehension of L2 English sentence types: Cross-linguistic influence and task effects. Gradus, 5(1), 71-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.47627/gradus.v5i1.149
  • Patience, M. (2019). An analysis of global and local crosslinguistic influence in L1 Mandarin-L2 English learners of L3 Spanish. Estudos da Língua(gem), 17(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v17i2.5346  
  • Patience, M. (2018). Acquisition of the tap-trill contrast by L1 Mandarin-L2 English-L3 Spanish speakers. Languages, 3(4), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3040042 
  • Patience, M. (2018). Relative difficulty in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish dorsal fricative. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.48  
  • Patience, M., Marasco, O., Colantoni, L., Klassen, G., Radu, M., Tararova, O. (2018). Initial prosodic cues in statements vs. questions, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 463-467. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-94   
  • Klassen, G., & Patience, M. (2016). Stressed clitics in Argentine Spanish: Which way does the clitic lean? In  A. Cuza, L. Czerwionka, & D. Olson (Eds.), Inquiries in Hispanic linguistics: From theory to empirical            evidence (pp. 149-170).  Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.12.09kla