Rafael Núñez Cedeño

Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño (born in the Dominican Republic) 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.

Career
Núñez Cedeño was co-founder and is a current co-editor of Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics, published in Berlin, Germany, and served as associate editor of Signos Lingüísticos, Miríada Hispánica, Modern Language Journal and País Cultural and was also a member of the editorial board of Cuadernos de 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 speaker and by selection in numerous academic institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain.

He is a Corresponding Member of the Dominican Academy of Language and an Active Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic.

Awards
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.

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).