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Thursday October 17

Time

Agenda

10:30 A.M. - 6 P.M.

Registration Table Open

12:00 P.M.

Exploring the intersection between language learning and experiential learning: Insights and implications for educators and students

  • Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Melanie Bloom, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Claudia García, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

ACADEMIC PANEL: “New horizons” in research on language contact in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics

  • Devin Grammon, University of Oregon
    Paola Enriquez Duque, George Mason University
    Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Luana Lamberti Nunes, Iowa State University
    Justin Pinta, Mississippi State University
    Anna M. Babel, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Perception and processing of Spanish questions and statements by L1 English/ L2 Spanish speakers

  • Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Spanish is just the beginning: helping Spanish speakers grow while boosting world language enrollments

  • Chris CJ Jacobs, The University of Nebraska, Kearney
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Variation in the Intonation of Uruguayan Spanish Declaratives

  • Brandon Goodale, The University of Texas at Tyler
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 P.M.

Cacophony avoidance, interference, and priming: -mente adverbs vs. prepositional phrases of manner in original and translated texts

  • Carlos I. Echeverría, Texas Tech University
    Esperanza González Moreno, Texas Tech University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Chilean speakers’ preferences for referring to parents: mi vs. el/la vs. null

  • Diego Ruiz Tagle, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Developing a “real me” in the political sphere: Using Lectal Focusing in Interaction to analyze Peninsular Spanish Regional Variation

  • Matthew Pollock, Louisiana State University Shreveport
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Políticas lingüísticas y educación en el oriente boliviano. El bésiro y su revitalización

  • Jacqueline Avila Alvarez, University of Montreal
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Re-considering 'verbs like gustar' - insights from linguistic theory and empirical research

  • Becky Gonzalez, University of Iowa
    Rachel Hart, University of Iowa
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 P.M.

Dialect change in a Salvadoran family in the Twin Cities: cross-generational changes in /s/ weakening

  • William A. Cornejo Moreira, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Heritage Spanish-English Bilingual’s Intuitions on Inanimate Noun Subjecthood

  • Rachel Casper, University of California, Merced
    Zenaida Aguirre-Munoz, University of California, Merced
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

How expectations of speaker knowledge predict form selection: Epistemic adverbs in contexts of expertise

  • Dylan Jarrett, East Carolina University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

L2 Learners' Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Spanish Varieties

  • Viveca Power
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

What is ‘neutral’ Spanish?: Perspectives from the US-based television industry

  • Andrew Lynch, University of Miami
    Marisleydi Ramos Borrego, University of Miami
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 P.M.

A Tale of Two Subjunctives: A diachronic and comparative analysis of the Future Subjunctive in Spanish and Portuguese

  • Jonathan Jones-Edwards, University of California - Berkeley
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

El Spanglish, le franglais, and popular music: Not all major translanguaging varieties exist equally

  • Carlos Enrique Ibarra, University of New Mexico
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

How LinguaMeeting Virtual Exchanges Guide Compliments in Spanish L2 Pragmalinguistic Encounters

  • Timothy J. Ashe Jr, University Of Alabama At Birmingham
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Predicate constituent order variation in the Spanish-Quechua contact situation of Cusco, Peru

  • Sarah Hubbel, University of North Georgia
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speech aerodynamics at word junctures: Resyllabification in US heritage Spanish

  • Ander Beristain, Saint Louis University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 P.M.

Assimilation Processes within the Puerto Rican Diaspora

  • Yhosep Barba, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Las actitudes de los trabajadores inmigrantes mexicanos hacia el “Spanglish” y el cambio de código

  • Hayden D. Holman, University of Kentucky
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Lenition and Language Contact in Peru

  • Brandon Rogers, Brigham Young University
    Carol A. Klee, University of Minnesota
    James Ramsburg, University of Minnesota
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Perspectives sobre el español, inglés, y Spanglish: A Mixed-Methods Study

  • Gorka Basterretxea Santiso, Northeastern University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Subjunctive productivity and governor effects in US Spanish: Insights from productivity measures and mixed-effects modeling

  • Isabella Calafate, Baylor University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 P.M.

"Disti qui nos han reconocío la Constitución, nojotro tiene más di direcho pa hablá”: Linguistic ideologies towards Afro-Bolivian Spanish

  • Pamela Jimenez, University of Texas at Austin
    Sandro Sessarego, University of Texas at Austin
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Exploring Heritage Speakers, L2s, and Monolinguals' Typed Writing Strategies: Evidence from Stimulated Recalls

  • Luis D. Gaytán-Soto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Melissa A. Bowles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Kami Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Exposure, Motivation, Context of Learning and L2 Spanish Rhotic Development

  • Avery K. Puskas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Emily Koshollek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Rajiv Rao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Offline and online measures of Unagreement in Spanish and Italian

  • Myriam Cantu-Sanchez, Unversitat de Barcelona
    Javier Sanchez-Lopez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Juan Silva-Pereyra, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    John Grinstead, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 to 3:30 P.M.

Break (light refreshments)

3:30 P.M.

Mapping Dominican lexical items: Visualizing perceptual communities and measuring attitudes towards Dominican lexical items in New York

  • Gabriella Reyes, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Modalidad Epistémica y Evidencialidad en el Discurso testimonial

  • Karen Miladys Cárdenas Almanza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Nino Angelo Rosanía Maza, Universidad de San Buenaventura
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Preparing Effective Heritage Language Educators: A Needs Analysis of Spanish Teachers

  • Anna Marrero-Rivera, University of Missouri
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

The Phonological and Sociophonetic Perception of Devoiced Vowels in Mexican Spanish by Learners and Speakers of Other Dialects

  • Anthony Brandy, Indiana University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 P.M.

Bilingual language experience and code-switching acceptability judgments: A constructive replication of Stadthagen-González et al. (2019)

  • Daniel Olson, Purdue University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Perception of the Palatal Consonant in Yeísta Dialects: a Chilean Spanish Case Study

  • Joseph Larson, Indiana University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Supporting All Students With Labor-Based Grading

  • Gwyneth E. Cliver, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The impact of a study abroad experience on the use of discourse markers by heritage speakers and L2 learners

  • Laura Marques-Pascual, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Irene Checa-García, University of Wyoming, Laramie
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

What role does social context play in Spanish-Valencian bilingual language processing?

  • Maria Rodrigo-Tamarit, University of Manitoba
    Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez, University of Manitoba
    Sunyoung Ahn, University of Manitoba
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 P.M.

Frog Story retell task as a means of evaluating Spanish-speaking children’s adjective development.

  • John Grinstead, Ohio State University - Main Campus
    Erin Pettibone, University of Toronto
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Hearing political affiliation: A perceptual analysis of political speech in Malaga, Spain

  • Matthew Pollock, Louisiana State University Shreveport
    Marina Bonilla-Conejo, St. John Fisher University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Lost in translation: Exploring Google Translate’s handling of Spanish forms of address in film dialogue

  • Michael Andrew Sciacca Jr, Georgetown University
    Wesley Scivetti, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

New zones of language contact: A first look at the Spanish in Rural Oklahoma Corpus

  • Carol Ready, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
    Ryan Nicklas, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Pragmatic and Discourse Functions of Discourse Marker (i)diay in Costa Rican Spanish

  • Christopher Brenes Fernández, Indiana University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

5:00 P.M.

Exploring Highly Frequent Prefabs in Spontaneous Conversation

  • Karol Ibarra Zetter, University of New Mexico
    David Paez, University of New Mexico
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

La adquisición del subjuntivo en niños hispanohablantes monolingües

  • Zayra Marcano, The University of Western Ontario
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Lexical borrowability in Arizona Spanish: Types, frequency and diffusion

  • Isabella Calafate, Baylor University
    Ana M. Carvalho, University of Arizona
    Brandon J. Martínez, University of Arizona
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Nonnatives Outperformed Natives: Spanish Determiners as Cues for Gender Assignment of Novel Nouns

  • Danny Melendez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The productivity of velar insertion in Spanish verbs ending in stem-final /s/

  • Maria Elizabeth Garza, Stony Brook University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 P.M.

Reflexivity in research: Navigating linguistic and cultural semi-understanding in the sociolinguistic interview

  • Carol Ready, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Some Means All Until Mutual Exclusivity Says It Doesn’t

  • John Grinstead, The Ohio State University
    Pedro Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Use-Conditional Meaning of Morphological Diminutives in Brazilian Portuguese

  • Victoria Cataloni, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Language Identity and Ownership through Code-Switching among Bilingual Maya-Spanish Undergraduate Students at an Intercultural-Bilingual-Education Bachelor’s Program

  • Felipe Acosta-Munoz, University of Florida
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

Plenary Session -

Dr. Paul D. Toth, Temple University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

A sociocognitive approach to instructed second language learning.

Abstract: In this plenary session, I will synthesize current research on relationships between cognitive processes, social interaction, and L2 development to offer a holistic, sociocognitive perspective on how learners engage with classroom affordances. In doing so, I aim to provide nuanced implications for teaching and research that respond to the complex realities of the classroom more meaningfully than would an exclusively cognitive or social perspective. Given that our decision-making processes as teachers and researchers are shaped by how we understand our professional practices, I hope to expand the conceptual tools available for all as we respond to the needs of learners.”

7:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Conference Reception (Dinner)

Friday October 18

Time

Agenda

8 A.M. - 6 P.M.

Registration Table Open

8 - 9 A.M.

Breakfast

9:00 A.M.

Four Years Later: Is Gender-Inclusive Language Still a Change in Progress?

  • Caitlin Samples, Stanford University/The University of Georgia
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Gender comprehension and vowel production: Are they related?

  • Ana Teresa Pérez Leroux, University of Toronto
    Laura Colantoni, University of Toronto
    Danielle Thomas, University of Toronto
    Crystal Chen, University of Toronto
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

L2 Perception of three different varieties of Spanish: Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Familiarity

  • Laura Trenta, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

The acquisition of present perfect aspectual values in heritage and L2 Spanish

  • Santiago Castillo, Purdue University
    Alejandro Cuza, Purdue University
    Francisco Clavijo, Purdue University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

'Éramos más humiɾdes': An Acoustic Approximation to Liquid Production in Southwestern Dominican Republic

  • Josmary Medina Heredia, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 A.M.

A unified syntactic analysis of three Spanish wh-complement constructions: head movement and the labeling algorithm

  • Katie VanDyne, Truman State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Foreign Language Anxiety and the Pandemic

  • Laura Trenta, The Ohio State University
    Rebecca Mason Vergote, The Ohio State University
    Holly Nibert, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Phraseological modifications in colloquial Spanish: The case of readers’ comments in written sports media online.

  • Patxi Lascurain-Ibarlucea, Illinois State University
    Montserrat Mir, Illinois State University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Spanish in Catalan interactions: code-switching as an ideological-discursive strategy to represent others

  • Natàlia Server Benetó, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10 - 11 A.M.

Plenary Session - Dímelo loco, ¿KLK? Structural and sociolinguistic dimensions of Dominican Spanish vernacular and their import for Linguistics

Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract: The present keynote overviews my individual and collaborative research on the Spanish spoken in the Dominican Republic, towards a dual purpose. On the one hand, it highlights the broad constellation of phonological and morphosyntactic properties that distinguish Dominican Spanish from other varieties and illustrates their usage among socially-stratified speakers in national settings, as well as their persistence in diasporic settings and on global platforms. On the other hand, the presentation brings attention and legitimacy to Dominican Spanish and its speakers, emphasizing the contributions of this racialized dialect in the advancement of various sub-disciplines of Linguistics.

11 - 11:30 A.M.

Break (light refreshments)

11:30 A.M.

Join the party: An RPG model for the language classroom

  • Sarah O'Neill, Utah State University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Mood Selection in Deontic Predicates in Child Heritage Spanish

  • Laura Solano, Purdue University
    Alejandro Cuza, Purdue University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

“My voice sounds so different in my second language”: Differences in L1 English and L2 Spanish pitch during study abroad in Barcelona.

  • Allison Goldman, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Preposition Stranding in Spanish Heritage Language as a non-Local Language Variety.

  • Rafael Jimenez Baralt, The University of Texas at Austin
    Fabian Reynoso, University of North Texas at Dallas
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Usar un Corpus para crear unas lecciones que incorporan el impacto de los idiomas indígenas al español.

  • Raúl Rangel Fernández, Wichita State University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 P.M.

Context within Context: Invitation-refusals and Apologies by Heritage Learners of Spanish through the Lens of Intercultural Pragmatics

  • Christine H. Song, Indiana University - Bloomington
    Nick I. Blumenau, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

L1 Category Compactness, L1 Allophonic Targets and L2 Production

  • Christine Shea, University of Iowa
    Ciara Tapanes, University of Iowa
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

On the role of lexical proficiency in the distribution of manner and frequency adverbs in child and adult heritage Spanish

  • Edier Gomez Alzate, Purdue University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Semantic network topology in L1 and L2 Spanish

  • M. Gabriela Puscama, Indiana University Bloomington
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Variación de las estructuras condicionales (no)prototípicas en español

  • Maria Jose Serrano, Universidad de La Laguna
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 P.M.

Adverbial adventures: adult heritage Spanish speakers' placement of adverbs by semantic class

  • Becky Gonzalez, University of Iowa
    Geoff Collins, Unaffiliated
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Analyzing the gap in mood choice of L1 and advanced L2 Spanish speakers with expressions of emotion in the past tense

  • Kiley Specht, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Competing national and regional vernaculars: Implicit attitudes towards informal address in Montevideo and Rocha, Uruguay

  • Veronica Loureiro-Rodriguez, University of Manitoba
    María Irene Moyna, Texas A&M University
    Elif Acar, University of Manitoba
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training of Spanish Rhotics

  • Carlos Andres Rojas, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Formas variables en la expresión del pasado en aprendices del español: los efectos de la L1

  • Miguel G. Román, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 - 2:30 P.M.

Lunch (on your own – see our list of suggestions in the sidebar of this page)

2:30 P.M.

POSTER: Cognitive and Societal Mechanisms in Mock Spanish

  • Juan J. Colomina-Alminana, Mills College
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

POSTER: Evidencia de la Influencia Translingüística en la Inversión Verbo-sujeto en Oraciones Interrogativas: Un Estudio Piloto con Hispanohablantes de Herencia

  • Vanessa Revheim, University of Georgia
    Violeta Barahona, University of Georgia
    Steve Vazquez, University of Georgia
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

POSTER: “From Left to Right”: the Influence of Political Orientation on the Language Attitudes of the Population of Palma toward Catalan and Spanish

  • Alejandro Jaume-Losa, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

It takes tú and vos to tango: Informal second person subject variation in Uruguayan Spanish

  • María Irene Moyna, Texas A&M University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

POSTER: "¿Me lo puedes volver a explicar?": Una aproximación teórica a la (a)gramaticalidad de la subida de clíticos en perífrasis triverbales

  • Carlos A. Krapp López, University of Arizona
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

POSTER: Descripción y usos del marcador “a ciencia cierta” en español.

  • Alan Emmanuel Perez Barajas Mtro., Universidad de Colima
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

POSTER: Social views on Spanish words of Náhuatl Origin in Wichita
  • Raul Rangel, Wichita State University
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Rhotic Contrast and Neutralization in Judeo-Spanish

  • Dr. Travis G. Bradley, University of California, Davis
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Sociolinguistic variation in Chilean Spanish: sensitivity to subtle sociophonetic traits in child language development

  • Miguel Ramos, Universidad de O'Higgins
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

POSTER: Task-Based Needs Analysis for Medical Spanish

  • Leticia Rincon Herce, Creighton University
    Madeline Critchfield, Rockhurst University
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

The Present Perfect in Castilian Spanish: current state and restrictions

  • Maialen Casquete De La Puente, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

The production of clitic doubling in psych verbs and inalienable possession constructions in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Spanish

  • Francisco Clavijo, Purdue University
    Santiago Castillo, Purdue University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

POSTER: The role of experience in acquiring code-switching constraints: Acceptability data from L1-English L2-Spanish bilinguals

  • Bryan Koronkiewicz, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
    Jordyn Battistelli, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

POSTER: Usos del español inclusivo en la (auto)referencia de gente no-binaria

  • Andrea Levinstein Rodriguez, University of Toronto
  • MBSC Chancellor's Room
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

3:00 P.M.

[estar + Adjective]: a view from 19th and 21st century Dominican Spanish

  • Romi Román, Penn State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Examining Teachers’ Raciolinguistic Ideologies in the SHL Classroom

  • Valeria Ochoa, Oregon State University
    Sergio Loza, University of Oregon
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Gradience vs. Categories: Compensatory Voiced Fricatives and the role of duration in Western Andalusian Spanish

  • Santiago Arróniz, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

“Los murlacos somo[z] inconfundibles”: Variable intervocalic /s/ voicing in the Spanish of Cuenca, Ecuador

  • Christina Garcia, St. Louis University
    Monique Valdepeñas, Saint Louis University
    Justin Bland, Rutgers University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Linguistic Landscape of ‘Little Portugal’ neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Jannis Harjus, Universität Innsbruck
    Linda Harjus, Universität Innsbruck
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 P.M.

A Construction Grammar approach to analogical extensions of Spanish possessives

  • Mark Hoff, Queens College CUNY
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Identity Construction in Narratives by Peruvian Andean Migrants

  • Anahis Samame Rispa, The Ohio State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Partial metathesis in Sevillian Spanish

  • Madeline Gilbert, University of Georgia
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Structural constraints in late L2 code-switching: Investigating the effect of acquisition order

  • Bryan Koronkiewicz, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

The L2 acquisition of the discourse properties of second person singular forms of address in Paisa Spanish

  • Nofiya Denbaum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Falcon Restrepo-Ramos, University of Nebraska Kearney
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 P.M.

A Speech Act Approach to #MeToo Activism in the Americas

  • Anna Babel, The Ohio State University
    Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello, University of Nebraska Omaha
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Are Young Miko, Villano Antillano, and Tokischa reflecting their queer Caribbean Latina identity in their sociophonetics? A study of their spontaneous speech and their artistic performance speech

  • Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes, Truman State University
    Kyra Ray, Truman State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

On the status of the "so-called" Basque partitive case: Evidence from Basque/Spanish code-switching

  • Daniel Vergara, Auburn University Main Campus
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The use of Spanish language in public signage in Trinidad

  • Paola Palma, The Univeristy of the West Indies
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Variaciones en el uso del modo subjuntivo en el español hablado de Oaxaca de Juárez, México

  • Jannis Harjus, Universität Innsbruck
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 - 5 P.M.

Break (light refreshments)

5 - 6 P.M.

Plenary Session: Dialectal contact in Brazilian Portuguese: patterns and gaps

Dr. Livia Oushiro, UNICAMP/FAPESP

Abstract: Sociolinguistic studies have generally focused on speech samples of non-mobile speakers in monolingual communities or on language contact situations resulting from immigration (Chambers 1992, Siegel 2010). Although mobility and dialectal contact tend to be the rule rather than the exception in most urban communities, the speech of internal migrants has not received as much attention.

This talk discusses patterns of dialect acquisition and maintenance in the speech of internal migrants from Northeastern Brazil living in the southeastern state of São Paulo. I will first present results from different research projects which have analyzed the extent to which phonetic, prosodic, and morphosyntactic features of São Paulo Portuguese are acquired by migrants from seven different states, and the social factors correlated with these changes. While most phonetic variables correlate with speakers’ age of migration in the expected direction (the earlier the arrival, the greater the use of host community’s traits), no morphosyntactic variable does. A longer period of residence affects only salient phonetic features – namely, the pronunciation of coda /r/, as in po[ɾ, ɻ, h]ta ‘door’, and coda /s/, as in pa[s, ʃ]ta ‘folder’ –, and has a weaker effect than age of arrival. Phonetic variables are particularly sensitive to stylistic variation (understood as ‘attention paid to speech’; Labov 2001), but reading (vs. conversation) doesn’t necessarily trigger the use of features from the Northeast or São Paulo, but supralocal norms.

In the second part of the talk, I will turn to one of the many questions which are still open in dialectal contact studies: even though coherent patterns emerge in migrants’ speech, there is great dispersion among individual speakers. Is it the case that migrants’ speech is more conditioned by individuals than by sociodemographic categories?

Results so far clearly show that migrants’ speech is just as patterned as that of prototypical non-mobile speakers in the community. The many factors that potentially influence their linguistic behavior – ranging from attitudes, interlocutors, individual abilities to the sociodemographic aspects of migration – make dialectal contact a fruitful road for new studies.

6:30 - 10 P.M.

Heavy Happy Hour/Dinner at Le Bouillon

Saturday October 19

Time

Agenda

9 - 11:30 A.M.

Registration Table Open

8 - 9:00 A.M.

Breakfast

9:00 A.M.

An exploration of anxiety sources in study abroad contexts through a qualitative lens

  • Andrea P. Hernando, Georgetown University
    Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

L2 and HL student perceptions of Afro-Latinx representation in Spanish language curriculum

  • Lillie Padilla, Sam Houston State University
    Rosti Vana, Sam Houston State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

¿Qué es hablar golpeado? Correlatos acústicos

  • Marta O-Llebaria, University of Pittsburgh
    Natalia Mazzaro, UTEP
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

The Vanished Voices of The Caribbean: Spanish Colonialism and the Pre-Columbian languages in the first voyages

  • Rafael J. Jimenez Baralt, The University of Texas at Austin
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 A.M.

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Deep Learning Based Classification model of South American Voseo in X Posts

  • Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in the Classroom Using a Cognitive Linguistic Approach

  • Sarah Rubio, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tod@/e/xs opinan: Actitudes implícitas hacia el lenguaje inclusivo en español

  • Gorka Basterretxea Santiso, Northeastern University
    Maria Gonzalez, University of Georgia
    James Graham Johnson, University of Georgia
    Andrew Weston, Northeastern University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Traducir entrerrianismos, ¿es una papa? El grado de conocimiento de unidades fraseológicas entrerrianas de traductores y estudiantes de traducción

  • Milton Ariel Hein, Universidad Adventista del Plata
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Spanish Second person singular (2PS) forms in the digital marketing of fast-food companies: a multinational and bimodal approach

  • Rachel Milito, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Room 304
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 A.M.

Computerized training with AI and human voices facilitates L2 prediction of grammatical gender agreement

  • Jorge Vargas Mutizabal, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Nuria Sagarra, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Estrategias discursivas en la representación de la familia y la identidad en la novela de Julia Álvarez: de cómo Tía Lola salvó el verano

  • Meimalin M Rivas, University of Kentucky
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Examining the representativeness of Spanish collocations with corpus and experimental data

  • Russell Simonsen, Miami University - Oxford
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Ojalá (hopefully) dependent clauses in L2 Spanish: verbal morphology and epistemic interpretation

  • Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, The University of Western Ontario
    Tyson de Moura Umberger, The University of Western Ontario
    Zayra Marcano Chiquin, The University of Western Ontario
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Variable Clitic Placement in Monolingual and Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Adolescents

  • Paul de Nijs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 A.M.

Diverging Individual Profiles in the Multilingual Societies of Lusophone Africa

  • Michael Gradoville, Arizona State University
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

English-Spanish bilinguals' production of Portuguese mid vowels

  • Mariana Certanin Bertho, Yale University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Perception of dialect and attitudes towards Ecuadorian-Spanish speakers in the US

  • Kathleen Guerra, University of Denver
    Christina Garcia, Saint Louis University - Main Campus
    Leonardo Carvajal, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Combined Effects of Study Abroad and Phonetics Instruction on L2 Spanish Pronunciation Development

  • Leah Metzger, Georgetown University
    Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11 - 11:30 A.M.

Break (light refreshments)

11:30 A.M.

Evaluating Proficiency and Communicative Competence in Heritage Brazilian Portuguese

  • Alexandre Alves Santos, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Flávia Cunha, Mount Holyoke College
    Luiz Amaral, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Representando al Caserío: Lateralización de /ɾ/ en la música urbana de Puerto Rico

  • Linnet Sanchez, Syracuse University
    Elizabeth Juarez-Cummings
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Second Language Acquisition of Regionally Indexed Phonological Variation: Advanced L2 Spanish Speakers and the Apicoalveolar Fricative [s̺]

  • Stacey Hanson, Indiana University
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Spanish Dialect Contact in New York: Perception and Representation in Theatrical Stage Performance

  • Marisleydi Ramos, University of Miami
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

When the dominant languages are not ergative. A case of ergative variation in Basque in Basque-Spanish and Basque-English bilingual communities

  • Eukene Franco Landa, University of Miami
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 P.M.

Characterizing Frequency Shifts in Bilingual Expressions of Futurity among US Spanish Speakers

  • Lauren Miranda, Ohio State University
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Exploring an EIT as a tool for accessing sociophonetic knowledge

  • Megan Solon, Indiana University
    Nicholas Blaker, Indiana University - Bloomington
    Katie Jonard, Indiana University - Bloomington
    Matthew Kanwit, University of Pittsburgh
    Stacey Hanson, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Eye-tracking shows that digital training improves L2 learning of stress-suffix associations

  • Nuria Sagarra, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Kaylee Fernandez
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 P.M.

Exploring the lexical aspect among heritage speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

  • Vanessa Revheim, University of Georgia
    Olivia Brooks, University of Georgia
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Marginal phonemic contrasts yield marginal perceptual sensitivity

  • Jessica C. Tiegs, University of Georgia
    Miquel Simonet, University of Arizona
  • MBSC Omaha Room 304
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Semiotic Erasure and the Discursive Construction of LGBTQIA+ Identities in the Portuguese ABCLGBTQIA+ Campaign

  • Jennifer Kaplan
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Syllable Merger in Moroccan Judeo-Spanish

  • Samuel Douglass, University of California, Davis
    Dr. Travis G. Bradley, University of California, Davis
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

1 - 1:50 P.M.

Lunch (on your own – see our list of suggestions in the sidebar of this page)

2 - 3 P.M.

Plenary Session: Moving CLA beyond the classroom walls: Development and Outcomes of a Latinx ambassador program

Dr. Sergio Loza, University of Oregon

Abstract: This presentation engages with the critical turnof the field of Spanish heritage language (SHL) education, which is characterized by the position that intergenerational Spanish maintenance is unattainable unless learners become cognizant of the language ideologies and practices that shape their bilingual and educational experiences (Beaudrie & Loza, 2022; Beaudrie & Vergara Wiilson, 2022). In the last decade, SHL scholars have increasingly called for the development of pedagogical practices, curriculum, and, most relevant to this presentation, programmatic initiatives that contest the educational disparities that U.S. Latinx learners face in language education and beyond. In response to this need,critical language awareness(CLA) has become a central framework with which to envision classroom spaces that honor and respect learners and their sociolinguistic varieties (Beaudrie & Loza, 2022; 2023; Holguín Mendoza, 2018; Leeman, 2005, 2012, 2018). This presentation argues that CLA should be conceptualized as both a curricular framework and broader programmatic philosophy. To illustrate this perspective, I discuss the design, implementation, and outcomes of an SHL student ambassador program at a large university in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The outcomes of this initiative, which are evidenced by student interviews and focus group data, suggest that SHL student ambassadors were able to make connections and apply the CLA gained in their courses in this position. This presentation highlights the applied ways in which theoretical frameworks such as CLA can inform the development of innovative programmatic initiatives that enrich SHL education and, thus, further extending this line of research.


3:00 P.M.

A new argument against gender-neutral MASC in Spanish
  • Daniel C. Greeson, SUNY Stony Brook
  • Victor Severino, SUNY Stony Brook
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Investigating Hyperarticulation as a Gay Speech Stereotype in Puerto Rican Bilinguals

  • Jamison García Ramírez, SUNY University at Buffalo
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Issues in Clitic Doubling and First Conjunct Clitic Doubling in Nariñense Andean Spanish

  • Jose Benavides, Indiana University - Bloomington
    Jessica Jurado Eraso, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 P.M.

Instructional strategies to foster the auditory processing of gender agreement in Spanish Heritage Speakers with mild-to-moderate hearing loss
  • Cristina Manteca-Gacho, The University of Illinois at Chicago
    Daniel Vergara, Auburn University Main Campus
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Placeholder na in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals
  • Chad Howe, University of Georgia
  • Bethany Bateman McDonald, University of Georgia
  • Sarah Hubbel, University of Georgia
  • MBSC Gallery Room 308
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Rhotics in Nariñense Andean Spanish: an analysis of lenition and fortition patterns
  • Jessica Jurado Eraso, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • MBSC Council Room 306
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

The referentiality of Cibaeño "ello"

  • Daniel C. Greeson, SUNY Stony Brook
    Victor Severino, SUNY Stony Brook
  • MBSC Dodge Room 302A
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:30 - 5:30 P.M.

Closing Reception (Dinner)

milo bail student center on UNO's dodge campus

The HLS conference will be held at the Milo Bail Student Center.

The student center offers various options for lunch including Durango’s Grill (hamburgers, pizza), Qdoba, Erbert & Gerbert's Sandwich Shop.

For HLS attendees who prefer to have lunch off campus, a good place to have lunch is Aksarben Village, especially the Inner Rail Food Hall.

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