Eric L Brown

Dados Biográficos

ID212123
NOMEEric L Brown
PRENOMESEric L
SOBRENOMEBrown
ASSINATURABROWN E L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Colorado Boulder
ORCID0000-0003-2824-8887
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES15
TOTAL COMO AUTOR43
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1937
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Development, delivery, and evaluation of the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute pilot infection control lecture series

    Open AccessKayla E Ruch, Anabel Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction The Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute (TEPHI) aims to keep Texans healthy and the economy strong by preparing for the next infectious disease outbreak. TEPHI’s Small Rural Healthcare Preparedness core developed, delivered, and evaluated a pilot infection prevention and control webinar series called Infection Control for rural-serving health professionals and organizations based on infection prevention and control field best prac…

  • Testing Cumulative Lexicalized Effects in Study Abroad

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Theodore Quan et al.ARTICLELanguages2025Referências: 40

    We examine variable first-person singular subject pronoun expression in Spanish learner data to investigate the effects of study abroad in Mexico and Spain on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. In addition to exploring pre- and post-study abroad effects, this work considers whether such impacts wane over time after the study abroad experience. We include in the analyses novel usage-based factors estimating lexically specific usage patt…

  • Predictors of Toxic Metal/Metalloid Exposures Among Mexican Americans in Starr County, Texas

    Open AccessMargaret C Wei, Margaret C Weiss et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025Referências: 36

  • Variant Choices of Future Time Reference in Galician

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLELanguages2024Referências: 26

    Compared to neighboring Romance languages, Galician currently maintains a more ubiquitous usage of the construction [haber (present) + (de) + infinitive] as a future marker in variation with the periphrastic construction with ir ‘go’ and the morphological future. We examine this under-studied construction to gain a better understanding of Galician grammar and also contribute new data with which to consider diachronic change regarding the grammati…

  • Constructional sources of durational shortening in discourse markers

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Javier RivasARTICLELinguistics2024Citada por: 1Referências: 64

    Using naturally occurring data from Spanish from Madrid, this study is the first to analyze durations of the Spanish word decir 'to say, to tell' both as a verb with prepositional meaning and as part of the reformulating construction [es decir] 'that is to say' (N = 388). We show that, although it is neither highly grammaticalized nor frequent, [es decir] undergoes phonological reduction to a significantly greater degree than the more frequent le…

  • Epidemiology of Antibiotic Use and Drivers of Cross-Border Procurement in a Mexican American Border Community

    Open AccessHeather T Essigmann, David Aguilar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: The U.S.-Mexico Border is an area of opportunity for improved health care access; however, gaps remain as to how and where U.S. border residents, particularly those who are underinsured, obtain care. Antibiotics are one of the most common reported drivers of cross-border healthcare access and a medication of particular concern since indiscriminate or inappropriate use is associated with antimicrobial resistance. In addition, many stud…

  • Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Naomi ShinARTICLEFirst Language2022

    Child language acquisition research has provided ample evidence of lexical frequency effects. This corpus-based analysis introduces a novel frequency measure shown to significantly constrain adult language variation, but heretofore unexplored in child language acquisition research. Among adults, frequent occurrence of a form in a particular discourse context that conditions usage accumulates in memory over time and shapes the lexical representati…

  • Fruit and Vegetable Shopping Behavior and Intake among Low-Income Minority Households with Elementary-Aged Children

    Open AccessBrittni Naylor Metoyer, Ru‐Jye Chuang et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Low-income children and families do not meet the recommendations for fruit and vegetable (FV) intake. This study aimed to assess the association between FV shopping behavior and child FV intake through a cross-sectional study design analyzing self-reported surveys (n = 6074) from adult-child dyads of Hispanic/Latino and African American participants enrolled in the Brighter Bites co-op program. Through quantitative mixed effects linear regression…

  • Bringing Purported Black Sheep into the Fold

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Javier RivasARTICLELanguages2019Citada por: 1Referências: 32

    This work reports the results of quantitative, variationist analyses of two typologically unusual constructions in order to explore the grammatical conditioning of subject expression in non-finite clauses. Both constructions, Galician inflected infinitives and (Puerto Rican) Spanish preposed, nominative infinitival subjects, have not been widely studied. As a result, variable expression/omission of subject marking in these constructions is not ye…

  • Variable subject pronominal expression in non-finite clauses

    Open AccessJavier Rivas, Eric L Brown et al.ARTICLELingua2018Citada por: 1Referências: 34

  • Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among HIV-infected adults in Botswana

    M J A Reid, Andrew P Steenhoff et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2017

    We sought to determine the clinical and epidemiologic determinants of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in HIV-infected individuals at two outpatient centers in southern Botswana. Standard microbiologic techniques were used to identify S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). In a sample of 404 HIV-infected adults, prevalence of S. aureus nasal carriage was 36.9% (n = 152) and was associated with domestic overcrowding and lowe…

  • Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations

    Open AccessWilliam D Raymond, Eric L Brown et al.ARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2016Citada por: 4Referências: 10

    Word production variability is widespread in speech, and rates of variant production correlate with many factors. Recent research suggests mental representation of both canonical word forms and distinct reduced variants, and that production and processing are sensitive to variant frequency. What factors lead to frequency-weighted variant representations? An experiment manipulated following context and word repetition for final t/d words in read, …

  • The role of discourse context frequency in phonological variation

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015

    Missing from the body of literature on contact-induced phonological influence are studies that examine language variation as it occurs in speech production among members of a speech community. This study uses a corpus of naturally occurring Spanish/English code-switched discourse to determine whether cross-language phonological effects are evident in the data. Specifically, 2629 tokens of word-initial /d/ were analyzed in spontaneous interactions…

  • Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2015

    The present study examines variable realizations of Spanish word-initial voiced and voiceless dental stops in Spanish-English cognate pairs. Employing a variationist approach to naturalistic data, we report significantly decreased likelihood of reduced articulations of word-initial /d/ in cognates in spontaneous bilingual Puerto Rican discourse, and no such probabilistic effect for cognates in monolingual Spanish of the same speech community. Usi…

  • How discourse context shapes the lexicon

    Eric L Brown, William D RaymondARTICLEDiachronica2012

    Using a corpus of Medieval Spanish text, we examine factors affecting the Modern Standard Spanish outcome of the initial /f/ in Latin FV‐ words. Regression analyses reveal that the frequency of a word’s use in extralexical phonetic reducing environments and lexical stress patterns significantly predict the modern distribution of f‐ ([f]) and h‐ (Ø) in the Spanish lexicon of FV‐ words. Quantification of extralexical phonetic context of use has not…

  • Implications of the WHO Child Growth Standards in rural Honduras

    Open AccessErin K Nichols, Joseph S Nichols et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2012

    Objective The present study analysed the impact of using the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards (‘the WHO standards’) compared with the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference (‘the NCHS reference’) on the calculated prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children aged 6·0–59·9 months. Design Anthropometric data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study exploring the association between household envir…

  • Grammatical relation probability

    Open AccessEric L Brown, Javier RivasARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2012Citada por: 3Referências: 9

    It has been argued speakers' knowledge of the probabilities of certain phones, words, and syntactic structures affects language production (Bell, Brenier, Gregory, Girand, & Jurafsky, 2009; Tily, Gahl, Arnon, Snider, Kothari, & Bresnan, 2009). This study provides evidence for effects of grammatical relation probabilities by identifying significant effects on verb morphology in the Spanish presentative [ haber ‘there (be)’+ NP] construction stemmi…

  • Subject-verb word order in Spanish interrogatives

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLESpanish in Context2011

    We conduct a quantitative analysis of conversational speech from native speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish to test whether optional non-inversion of subjects in wh -questions ( ¿qué tú piensas? ) is indicative of a movement in Spanish from flexible to rigid word order (Morales 1989; Toribio 2000). We find high rates of subject expression (51%) and a strong preference for SV word order (47%) over VS (4%) in all sentence types, in line with assertion…

  • The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado

    Eric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEHispania2010

    Reviewed by: The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas Esther L. Brown Bills, G., and Neddy Vigil. The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2008. Pp. 383. ISBN 978-0-8263-4549-3. This work is destined to be the ultimate resource on topics pertaining to New Mexican Spanish for years to come. Bills and Vigil expertly illustrate dialect geography …

  • Phonological Evidence of Interlingual Exemplar Connections

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.ARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2009

    We conduct quantitative analyses of 5,569 tokens of Spanish word-final /s/ in the speech of Spanish/English bilinguals and monolinguals to test the Exemplar Model of Lexical Representation. We establish that reduction (aspiration, deletion) of word-final /s/ in the speech of New Mexico is significantly lower in Spanish words whose English translation equivalent has a word-final /s/ and significantly higher in words with no word-final sibilant in …

  • Implicatures in Discourse

    Eric L Brown, Esther Brown et al.ARTICLEHispania2006

    Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and non-coreference. Her analysis shows how speakers abide by Levinson's 'neo-Gricean' principles of Quantity, Informativeness, and Manner, but that grammatical, seman…

  • Spanish Phonology and Morphology

    Eric L Brown, Esther Brown et al.ARTICLEHispania2006

    Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies, psycholinguistic experiments, corpus data, and computer simulations. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that these kinds of evidence are crucial for esta…

  • New Mexican Spanish

    Eric L Brown, Esther L BrownARTICLEHispania2005Citada por: 2

    For close to a century, a noted feature of the Spanish of New Mexico has been the variable aspiration and deletion of syllable-initial /s/ (Espinosa 1909), yet no empirical investigations have been undertaken to study this process within this variety of Spanish in the United States. In fact, syllable-initial /s/ world-wide is rarely quantified, with few exceptions (e.g., Garcia and Talion 1995). This relative lack of empirical analysis means that…

  • Spanish /s/

    Eric L Brown, Esther L Brown et al.CHAPTERA Romance perspective on language…2003

  • Psycho‐maintenance in asthma

    Open AccessJerald F Dirks, James C Schraa et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1980

    Certain patient styles perpetuate chronic physical illness, defeat medical treatment, and increase the utilization of medical services. Two such extreme styles among asthmatic patients are indexed by the MMPI panic‐fear scale, reflecting either (a) helpless dependency and anxiety, or (b) excessive inappropriate independence. The present findings indicate that both of these patient styles are related to excessively high hospitalization rates durin…