nNELLY ZAMORA-BRECKENRIDGE is a Senior Research Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Valparaiso University with over 30 years of experience teaching Spanish. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has post-graduate studies in Hispanic Linguistics and Phonetics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervoin Bogatá and the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericanain Madrid.n