Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões
# Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões

Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões is a Brazilian-born linguist interested in the phonetics and phonology of the Romance languages. Simões is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese linguistics at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, USA, where he teaches Hispanic linguistics. He has authored books, textbooks and articles contrasting the Portuguese and Spanish languages. Simões is currently conducting research work on speech models and foreign language learning models, especially in relation to phonetics and phonology. Simões work on modeling is a continuation of his Ph.D. thesis; an adaptation of the late Dennis Klatt's 1976 pioneering model to predict duration in connected speech.

## Career

Simões' B.A. was conferred at Central College, in the town of Pella, Iowa, United States, after withdrawing his undergraduate work at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Prior to coming to Austin, Simões did his graduate studies at the University of Provence, in Aix-en-Provence, France; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

