Rajiv Rao

Editor-in-Chief (Heritage Language Journal)

Rajiv Rao is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Director of the Language Sciences Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Editor-in-Chief of the Heritage Language Journal. His research interests include phonetics, phonology, prosody, heritage languages, Afro-Hispanic linguistics, and second language acquisition. He primarily focuses on prosody (i.e., intonation, stress, rhythm) and individual sounds for Spanish, both Peninsular and in the Americas, especially in relation to syllables, words, phrases, pragmatic and syntactic conditions, and social variables. He integrates these research interests into courses dealing with general Spanish linguistics and Spanish phonetics and phonology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels

Email: rgrao@wisc.eduWebsite