E-mail Address: francisco.montano@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone Number: 718-960-7727
Office: Carman Hall, Room 276
Rank: Assistant Professor
Degrees and Sources of Degrees: A.B., Princeton Univ.; M.A., Ph.D. Indiana Univ.

Francisco Antonio Montaño is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures and in the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics.  He joined the Department of Languages and Literatures in 2009.  He received his A.B. (French) from Princeton University, his M.A. in French Linguistics from Indiana University, and earned dual Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University in French (French Linguistics track) and Linguistics. His current research focuses on diachronic and synchronic French phonology, Romance linguistics, syllable-sensitive phonological change, consonant cluster phonotactics, prosody, language contact, and language pedagogy. 

Since Fall 2023, Prof. Montaño has served as the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics.  Among his other roles at Lehman and CUNY, he also serves as an officer of the Executive Committee of the CUNY Council on World Language Study, the CUNY-wide Languages & Literatures discipline council; as Spanish BA Advisor for students majoring or minoring in Spanish; as Chapter Moderator of Lehman's Zeta Sigma chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the national French honor society; and as Treasurer of Lehman's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Chi of New York. From 2009-2019, he also served as Language Coordinator of the elementary French, Italian, and Spanish L2 language sequences in the Department of Languages & Literatures. In Spring 2012, Prof. Montaño received the School of Arts and Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent publications

Montaño, Francisco Antonio. 2024. "A stratal phonological analysis of stem-level and word-level effects in Old French compensatory vowel lengthening upon coda /s/ deletion." Languages 9(5), 177 (Special issue: Phonetic and Phonological Complexity in Romance Languages, ed. by Irene Vogel and Laura Spinu).

Montaño, Francisco Antonio. 2024. "Syllable contact effects as a diachronic precursor to mora licensing in early French /sC/ clusters." In G. Armstrong, R. D'Alessandro & M. C. Parafita Couto (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 21. Special Issue of Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(2)/2, 1-36.

Montaño, Francisco Antonio. 2023. "Manner change in early French unharmonic obstruent-sonorant clusters: Re-examining native lexicon and ecclesiastic loanwords in a constraint-based analysis." Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 9(1)/14: 1-57.

Montaño, Francisco Antonio. In press. "The long and short of prothesis in early French word-initial /sC/ clusters." In C. Howe, P. Chamorro, T. Gupton & M. Renwick (eds.), Theory, data and practice: Selected papers from the 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, 209-230. Berlin: Language Science Press.