Félix Fonseca Quesada

Hola :)

Welcome to my website! I’m Félix Fonseca Quesada, a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Stony Brook University, where I work under the supervision of Dr. Lori Repetti and Dr. Marie Huffman.

My research lies at the intersection of phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, and experimental approaches to speech. I am particularly interested in how speakers perceive, produce, and acquire new sound patterns in a second language. More broadly, I examine how fine phonetic detail interacts with abstract phonological structure, and how language experience shapes speech learning across languages.

Before joining Stony Brook in 2021, I completed two degrees in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University of Costa Rica, Western Campus.

I am a proud Costa Rican 🇨🇷

In Spanish, my name is pronounced [ˈfeliks], though the English pronunciation [ˈfilɪks] is perfectly fine too.