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Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño is an American researcher and writer on Hispanic linguistics, with a special focus on its phonology and morphology. He is also known for his academic and general articles on the Spanish of the Dominican Republic. Núñez Cedeño is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Biography

Núñez Cedeño’s education started in Santo Domingo where shortly after completing his third year of high school, he enrolled as an Air Force cadet at the Batalla de Las Carreras Military Academy, in which he earned one of two scholarships to study advanced aviation in Lackland, Texas. Those hopes were dashed by the armed insurrection of April 1965, and later he joined the constitutionalist forces led by Commander Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó. At the end of 1965, he emigrated to the United States, New York, and completed his high school education at the Benjamin Franklyn High School of Spanish Harlem. In New York City, Núñez Cedeño began his career as a linguist and educator. He graduated in education and Hispanic literature from New York University (1972). At that university, he obtained a master's degree in Hispanic linguistics and literature (1973). In 1977 he received a doctorate in the same area at the University of Minnesota.

Núñez Cedeño was co-founder and is a current co-editor of Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics, published in Berlin, Germany, and participates as associate editor of Signos Lingüísticos, Miríada Hispánica, Modern Language Journal and País Cultural. He is also a member of the editorial board of Cuadernos Poética.

Nuñez Cedeño is an Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and has taught either as a Visiting Assistant Professor or Full Professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Indiana University, University of New Hampshire, Boston University, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad de Maracaibo of Venezuela, Universidad Metropolitana Autónoma de Mexico, Colegio de Mexico, Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico and Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, of Santiago and Santo Domingo. He has been invited to conferences as a stellar speaker and by selection in numerous academic institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain.

In 1979 he received the Siboney Award, in 1992 the Essay Award from the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña with Morfología de la Sufijación Española and in 1994 the National Science Award from the Dominican Republic Academy of Sciences.

Núñez Cedeño's linguistic research has been disseminated in anthologies, encyclopedias, books, newspapers, radio and TV, supplements, and national and international literary magazines. He founded and chaired the Dominican American Midwest Association, an association of Dominicans dedicated to cultivating the country's culture and providing humanitarian services to Dominicans in Chicago and on the island and other Latino communities. He is currently a core member of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

Books

• La Fonología Moderna y el Español de Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo: Editora Taller, 1979)
• Morfología de la Sufijación Española (Santo Domino: UNPHU 1993)
• Estudios sobre la Fonología del Español del Caribe(Caracas: Fundación Casa de Bello,1986) *Studies in Romance Languages ​​(Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris Publications, 1987)
• Fonología Generativa Contemporánea de la Lengua Española (1st edition 6 1999, 2nd edition 2014, Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press)
• Language Knowledge and Use(Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publications, 2003);
• The Syllable and Stress (Berlin: De Gruyter-Mouton, 2014)
• Desarrollos y Procesos Lingüísticos en el Español Dominicano (Santo Domingo: Colección Bibliográfica del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, 2021).