Dept of Spanish and French Studies
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Department of Spanish and French Studies
Advisory Committee, Cognitive Science
Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics
Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies
Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.S., St. Cloud State University
M.A., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Occidental College. He offers courses in Spanish language, Hispanic linguistics, and general linguistics. His research combines interests in the nature of the Spanish sound system and the representation and processing of language in the mind. As an experimental phonologist, his work adopts psycholinguistic methods to examine issues in Spanish phonotactics.