Since Fall 2019, the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Working group has been in charge of organizing the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Colloquium.
The DSP Linguistics Colloquium was first initiated in Fall 2012. Under Ana Carvalho’s mentorship, graduate students Ryan Bessett and Joseph Kern organized and hosted multiple talks every semester until 2016. After that, graduate students have been alternating as organizers. The main goal of the colloquium is to provide a setting in which graduate students and professors (from the University of Arizona and other institutions as well) can share their research in its various stages. These talks are open to the public and present a great opportunity for networking, professional development, and intellectual growth for the community.
The DSP Linguistics Colloquium was first initiated in Fall 2012. Under Ana Carvalho’s mentorship, graduate students Ryan Bessett and Joseph Kern organized and hosted multiple talks every semester until 2016. After that, graduate students have been alternating as organizers. The main goal of the colloquium is to provide a setting in which graduate students and professors (from the University of Arizona and other institutions as well) can share their research in its various stages. These talks are open to the public and present a great opportunity for networking, professional development, and intellectual growth for the community.
Spring 2024
February 8th:
- Joo Kyeong Kim (UCLA): “The effect of dominant societal language on plural morpheme productions by early bilinguals"
- Amelia Grace Hill (University of Arizona): "Falas galego?! Language Attitudes and Ideologies Regarding Galician Speakers from Outside Galicia"
Fall 2023
Diciembre 1st:
November 3rd:
October 6th:
- Alma Jessica González Camacho (University of Miami): “Reduplicación total de constituyentes en la gramática del español"
- Hadley Forst (University of Arizona): “Processing accented speech in the L1: Does accented phonetic detail impede lexical Access?"
November 3rd:
- Miguel Germán Román (Indiana University - Bloomington): “From ‘Cuck’ to ‘Prostitute’: Crosslinguistic Variation of Dekasegi in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese Online Discourse"
- Eukene Franco-Landa (University of Miami): “Identity as a sociolinguistic factor in minorized contexts"
October 6th:
- Brandon J. C. Martínez (University of Arizona): “Discourse/Pragmatic Variation in the Tag System of Southern AZ Spanish"
- Alicia M. Brown (University of Arizona): “Spanish grammatical gender assignment of Basque nouns"
Spring 2023
April 10th:
March 13th:
February 6th:
- Alice Ribeiro Dionizio (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina): “Las metáforas del coronavírus en el periódico Folha de São Paulo"
- Alicia Brown (University of Arizona): “Marcador diferencial de objetos por parte de hispanohablantes rumanos en Madrid"
March 13th:
- Luiz Rodrigues (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul): “El léxico del cuerpo humano en los libros didácticos para la enseñanza del portugués como lengua adicional: una nueva propuesta de material didáctico"
- Annie Ornelles (Georgetown University): “Linguistic Landscape Perceptions and Attitudes on Bilingualism in the Galician Visual Landscape"
February 6th:
- Hope M. Anderson (Arizona State University): “La proficiencia en la clase de español: ¿Cómo desarrollarla?"
- Raquel Horvath de Andrade (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): “Explicit pronunciation instruction in Portuguese as an Additional Language for Spanish speakers: effects on the degree of similarity to the native pattern and on the local intelligibility of /s/ and /z/"
Fall 2022
November 17th:
October 27th:
September 29th:
- Katie VanDyne (University of Illinois): “Optionality in Spanish adjunct control structures"
- John Powell (University of Arizona): “White Supremacists’ Weaponization of Heritage Languages and Language Revitalization"
October 27th:
- Mariana Bulegon (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): “El cine en la clase de Portugués Lengua Adicional"
- Isabel Last (University of New Mexico): “Faena: Spanish language learning video game"
September 29th:
- Taehyeong (Martín) Kim (University of Arizona): “Análisis de percepción de la resilabificación del español"
- Gabriella Licata (University of California, Berkeley): “The damage of standard language ideologies: US Spanish and indexes of deficiency"
Spring 2022
January 27th:
March 24th:
April 21st:
- Susana Madinabeitia Manso (Universidad de Navarra, Spain): “Evaluación dinámica en la clase de ELE"
- Celia Bravo Díaz (University of Minnesota): “L2 Acquisition of Spanish VOT by Chinese-Speaking Learners: A Cross-sectional Study"
March 24th:
- Dr. Brian Hibbs (Dalton State College): “English/Spanish Contrasts: Using English and Spanish Linguistics to Reach English Language Learners"
- Jessica Tiegs (University of Arizona): “Vowel Sandhi in Castilian Spanish: The Acoustics of Vowel Sequences across a Word Boundary"
April 21st:
- Leslie Del Carpio (Arizona State University): “Aspectual Differences in the Preterite and Imperfect in US Spanish: An Analysis of their Use by Three Generation English-Spanish Bilinguals"
Fall 2021
September 30th:
November 4th:
- Brian Gravely (University of Arizona): “Differential object marking strategies and the case of Galician"
- Isabella Calafate de Barros (University of Arizona): “Mood variation among Spanish-English bilinguals in Southern Arizona: cross-dialectal continuities and methodological considerations"
November 4th:
- Helena Escalera & Ellen Deemer (University of Arizona): “¡Ay, señora, perdóname!: Pragmalinguistic differences in apologies between L1, L2 and Heritage speakers of Spanish"
- Carlos Krapp López (University of Arizona): “Problemón: Grammatical and semantic properties of Spanish suffix -ón"
Spring 2021
February 18th:
- Mariana Centanin Bertho (University of Arizona): “Working with learner corpus data: an introduction to MACAWS (Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments - Writing and Speech)"
- Andrija Petrovic (Stony Brook University): “Modeling morphological epenthesis"
March 18th:
- Alicia Brown (University of Arizona): “A variationist exploration of past tense progressive forms in the Spanish of Tucson"
- Tamara Gómez Carrero (University of Valladolid): “The eyes are a window to the mind: The processing of Spanish grammatical gender in codeswitching"
April 15th:
- Ángela Matute Sánchez (University of Arizona): “Syntax-discourse interface: a corpus-based study of left dislocated constructions in Spanish"
- Marina Cárcamo García (University of Arizona): “Interpretation skills of SHL and L2 learners of T&I in Southern Arizona: a methodological approach"
Fall 2020
September 15th (LASSO Practice Talks):
- Catherine Rockey (University of Arizona): “Language Alternation in Text Message-Based Interactions: A sequential analysis of (dis)alignment strategies"
- Marina Cárcamo-García (University of Arizona): “Intra-sentential code-mixing in L2 Portuguese acquisition of Venezuelan immigrants in Brazil"
October 20th:
- Lauren Souter (University of Arizona): “Proposed (Tri-)border Research on Linguistic Ideologies and Anaphoric Direct Object (ADO) Expression in Spanish and Portuguese"
- Carlos Krapp-López (University of Arizona): “Dativos de interés transferido en castellano ".
November 17th:
- Alicia Brown (University of Arizona): “Dialect stylization for comedic effect in the construction and performance of Basque modernity"
- Ben Brown (Northern Arizona University): “El ritmo de los hablantes de herencia del español"
Spring 2020
February 19th (NSSHL Practice Talks):
- Carmella Scorcia Pacheco (University of Arizona): “Critical Language Awareness through Music and Activism in the SHL Classroom”
- Isabella Calafate de Barros (University of Arizona): “‘Struggles of Not Feeling Latino Enough’: A pedagogical tool for Critical Translingual Competence in SHL education"
- Daniela Torres Cirina (University of Arizona): “Integrating Technology-Enhanced Instruction in Heritage Language Classrooms"
- Sara Alcázar Silva (University of Arizona): “Empowering Heritage Language Learners by Centering Symbolic Competence"
Fall 2019
September 18th:
October 9th:
October 16th (HLS Practice Talks):
Posters
November 20th:
- Hadley Forst (University of Arizona): “Perception of Unstressed Vowels by L2 Spanish Learners: Syllable Position, Orthography and Experience”
- Marina Cárcamo (University of Arizona): “Sociolinguistic Data Collection in the Venezuelan Diaspora in the Campinas region, Brazil”
October 9th:
- Catherine Rockey and Jessica Tiegs (University of Arizona): “Mobile Application Use in Technology-Enhanced DCTs”
- Lauren Souter (University of Arizona): “SALE hasta 70% dcto: Examining the context of language distribution in storefronts in Colombian malls”
October 16th (HLS Practice Talks):
Posters
- Isabella Calafate de Barros (University of Arizona): “Variation in mood selection in Spanish of Southern Arizona”
- Mariana Centanin Bertho (University of Arizona): “The authority of the native speaker towards non-native accent: language attitudes in a YouTube channel”
- Ángela Matute Sánchez (University of Arizona): “The Future Tense Expression in Southern Arizona Spanish”
- Jessica Tiegs (University of Arizona): “Falar bem o português: dialectal attitudes toward Brazilian and European Portuguese”
- Mariela López (University of Arizona): “Phonetic variation and second-language phonological development”
November 20th:
- Alicia M. Brown (University of Arizona): “A sociolinguistic approach to acceptability judgment tasks: Graduate school programs as communities of practice”
- Laura Fontana Soares (Fullbright/University of Arizona): “Guidelines for the elaboration of a teaching material of Portuguese as a Welcoming Language for forced immigrants”