Megan is a Ph.D. candidate of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her main research interest is psycholinguistics with ancillary interests in bilingual first language acquisition, morphosyntactic development, child language disorders, majority-minority language contact, and poverty effects on language development and executive function.
She is a co-host of the Vocal Fries podcast.
Megan Figueroa has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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67: The Translation & Interpreting Podcastival
25 November 2021 | 1 hr 51 mins
live
Podcasts are everywhere, so what to listen to? To help you along here, the Troublesome Terps reached out to some of our favorite language related podcast-superstars and invited them to join our first ever live #podcastival. The goal was to celebrate the language industry at large in all its beautiful diversity with all its shades and wrinkles and shine a spotlight on these fabulous contributions - if we missed your favorite language podcast, do let us know and enjoy our #podcastival!
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21: Looking for Trouble with the Vocal Fries
18 April 2018 | 1 hr 36 mins
linguistics
Hungry for more podcast? This month, the Terps are looking for trouble with the tasty Vocal Fries! Together with Vocal Fries hosts Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, Jonathan and the Alexes discuss a wide variety of different topics from linguistic discrimination to gendered language to code switching and what's up with French in Canada or with Spanish in Arizona.