A PhD candidate with extensive experience in teaching, coordinating the Community Service Learning program, previous "Entrehojas" editor-in-chief, but most importantly linguist and researcher, working under the supervision of Dr. Silvia Perpiñán. In my dissertation, "Incomplete acquisition at the level of the OPC: Polish and Spanish heritage speakers in Canada," I compare Spanish and Polish heritage speakers and their use of overt pronouns in certain contexts. Specifically, I am investigating the Overt Pronoun Constraint (Montalbetti 1984). This constraint exists in all null-subject languages like Spanish and Polish and it states that an overt subject of an embedded clause cannot co-refer with a quantified or WH-word antecedent.
Generative Linguistics
La Restricción del pronombre explícito en los hablantes de herencia hispano, Language in Contact - Spanish 4412F (2012)
A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their...
WHAT CODE-MIXED DPS CAN TELL US ABOUT GENDER (with Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón, Ana Faure, Yolanda Pangtay, Alma Ramírez Trujillo, and Sonia Reis), Mind‐Context Divide Workshop, University of Iowa (2009)
There has been a growing interest in the examination of the steady state of simultaneous...
Theoretical Linguistics
The OPC in Spanish and Polish Monolingual Speakers, BWTL 15 (2011)
A variety of studies have documented the acquisition of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti,...
Evaluations
Student Evaluations 2009-2010 (2010)
Student evaluations of "The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language", plus an email written...
Awards
Course Syllabi
The Language of Spanish Heritage Speakers syllabus (2011)
This is a syllabus of my course focusing on the language of Spanish heritage speakers....
Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Syllabus (2010)
This is the syllabus of my 3rd year Spanish course on the acquisition of Spanish...
Presentation
La Restricción del pronombre explícito en los hablantes de herencia hispano, Language in Contact - Spanish 4412F (2012)
A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their...