• PHD Language Acquisition/Linguistics, Stanford University 2007
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 100% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Arabic (professional proficiency) • Arabic, Moroccan (elementary proficiency) • Dutch (Flemish) (professional proficiency) • French (native/bilingual proficiency) • Greek (limited working proficiency) • Guaranm (limited working proficiency) • Italian (limited working proficiency) • Norwegian (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency) • Turkish (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Spanish phonetics and phonology; language acquisition of Spanish; grammatical structures of Spanish
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Argentina (country of origin), France • 2013 Guarani Night
Distinctions:
• -ongoing honorary member, Sigma Delta Pi • -2012 IAH Innovation Fund • 2013-2013 Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award • 2013-2013 Junior Faculty Development Award • 2011-2012 UNC University Research Council Grant • 2010-2011 UNC Odum Social Science Seed Grant for Multidisciplinary Research, Odum Institute for Social Science • 2005-2005 travel grant recipient, International Lexical Functional Grammar Association
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
3
Relevant Courses Taught:
• SPAN 376 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology • SPAN 377 Grammatical Structures of Spanish • SPAN 677 Spanish Syntax • SPAN 680 First- and Second-Language Acquisition of Spanish
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century” in Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (BSILA) Series, ed. J Pinta.
• 2017 “Guarani morphology in Paraguayan Spanish: insights from code-mixing typology” in Hispania 100(1).
• 2015 “Guaraní-Spanish Jopara mixing in Paraguay: Does it reflect a third language, a language variety, or true codeswitching?” in Journal of Language Contact, 8(2). 183–222.
• 2013 “Rioplatense Spanish clitic doubling and "tripling" in lexical-functional grammar.” Selected Proceedings of the 2011 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, eds. C. Howe, S. Blackwell, and M. Lubbers Quesada, 297-309. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 2013
• 2013 El modelo de las fuerzas discursivas y el doblado de clíticos rioplatense. Signo y Seña. Revista del Instituto de Lingüística de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. 119–142. 2013
• 2013 Harder words: Learning abstract verbs with opaque syntax. Language Learning and Development, 211–244.With Becker, M 2013
• 2012 “Cognitive, environmental, and linguistic predictors of language skill in populations with intellectual disability.” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 55(6), 1600-12.With G. Martin and J. Roberts.
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