{"id":58186,"date":"2015-09-29T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58186"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:45:42","slug":"daniel-erker","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/daniel-erker\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Erker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Daniel Erker teaches courses in general linguistics and Spanish linguistics within Boston University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/\">College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/a>. His research interests include language variation, contact, and change, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, Spanish in the United States, the languages of Latin America, and the evolution of human language.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Erker is the director of &#8220;The Spanish in Boston Project.&#8221; This project (funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1423840&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">National Science Foundation (BCS-1423840)<\/a> aims to describe and understand how Spanish is used in the Greater Boston Area. More about the project: an <a href=\"http:\/\/wgbhnews.org\/post\/new-year-new-mayor-new-boston-under-radar-previews-2014\">interview<\/a> on WGBH\u2019s Under The Radar, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wgbhnews.org\/post\/spanish-dialects-merging-boston\">written piece<\/a> in WBGH\u2019s local news section, an article about the project in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/a-language-evolves\/\">BU\u2019s online daily newspaper BU Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Professor Erker\u2019s research and publications, please visit his website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/\">http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70260,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58186\/revisions\/70260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}