Description: Scott Sadowsky, PhD · Professor of Linguistics · Universidad de Cartagena · Profesor de Lingüística · Universidad de Cartagena
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I'm Scott Sadowsky, professor of linguistics at the Universidad de Cartagena (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia). Previously, I was a professor of linguistics at the Catholic University of Chile (Santiago, Chile), a research associate at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany), and a professor of linguistics at the Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco, Chile).
My main research interests are sociolinguistics, phonetics , language contact and corpus linguistics . My latest project, the Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Spoken Chilean Spanish (COSCACH), unites all of these fields.
My research has focused on a relatively under-studied variety of Spanish -- Chilean Spanish. There's nothing quite as intriguing as finding mysteries in plain sight, and this geolect is full of them. I also work on Mapudungun, an indigenous language isolate spoken in parts of Chile and Argentina. I'm currently co-directing a project to document and study the phonetic and phonological variation of Mapudungun, called --appropriately enough-- Sounds of Mapudungun .