Director of Doctoral Research and Committee

  1. The relationship of Academic Achievement to Language Use and Language Attitudes: Bilingual Chicago Youths of Mexican Descent (Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza, Ph.D., 1996, Associate Professor at Mexico State University at Las Cruces)
  2. Pre-Verbal Position in Spanish in contact with Basque (María José González, Ph.D., 1999, Faculty at Bosphorus University, Istambul, Turkey)
  3. Spanish heritage speakers' Spanish and English writings: Contrastive rhetorical and linguistic analyses (María Spicer-Escalante, Ph.D., 2002, Associate Professor at Utah State University at Logan)
  4. Language choice in a Dual Immersion Classroom: A Sociolinguistic and Interactionist perspective (Kim Potowski, Ph.D., 2002, Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago)
  5. The grammaticalization of de: a reanalysis of Spanish (de)queismo (Carlos del Moral [R.I.P. 2009], Ph.D., 2004, National University of Cuyo, Argentina)
  6. Mood Simplification: Adverbial clauses in Heritage Spanish (María Isabel Martínez, Ph.D., 2006, Associate Professor at University of Mary Washington, Virginia)
  7. A macro and micro sociolinguistic study of lg attitudes and lg contact: Mercosur and the teaching of Spanish in Brazil (Talia Bugel, Ph.D., 2006, Associate Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne)
  8. Intergenerational Spanish Language Transmission: Attitudes, Motivations, and Linguistic Practices in two Mexican-American Communities (María Isabel Velázquez, Ph.D., 2008, Associate Professor at University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
  9. Dialect divergence and identity in Basque Spanish (María Puy Ciriza, Ph.D., 2009, Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University)
  10. Pronouns of Address in Informal Contexts: A Comparison of Two Dialects of Colombian Spanish (Mónica Millán, Ph.D., 2011, Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti)
  11. Language, gender, and identity construction: Sociolinguistic dynamics in the borderlands (Claudia Holguín, Ph.D., 2011, Assistant Professor at the University of California at Riverside)
  12. Quechua and Spanish in the Urban Andes: A study of Language Dynamics and Identity Construction among Peruvian Youth (Amy Firestone, Ph.D., 2012; Dean of Continuing Education and Professional Development at Miami Dade College)
  13. Evolution of Costa Rican personal address forms: a sociopragmatic analysis of family letters (Munia Cabal, Ph.D., 2013, Assistant Professor at Western Illinois University, Macomb)
  14. Nominal Subordinate Sentences in Peruvian Spanish as a Contact-induced Phenomenon (Claudia Crespo, Ph.D., 2014, Researcher and Faculty, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
  15. Lexical borrowing and code-switching in Dagara-French bilingual discourse in Burkina-Faso (Richard Beyogle, Ph.D., 2015, Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University; co-directed with Professor Zsuzsanna Fagyal)
  16. The Social Dynamics of Language Variation and Change in Catalonian Spanish (Justin Davidson, Ph.D., 2015, Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley)
  17. DOM in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations (Itxaso Rodríguez, Ph.D., 2016, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University)
  18. A socio-pragmatic analysis of Voseo in Honduran Spanish (Jeriel Melgares, Ph.D. 2017, Visiting Instructor, Centre College at Kentucky)
  19. Discourse markers and Bilinguals (Cristina Mostacero, ABD, to defend Fall 2019)
  20. Northern Peruvian Spanish in contact (Fabiola Fernández Doig, preparing doctoral qualifying papers)

Director of M.A. Research and Committee

  1. Tunakuna Hatarinqaku: Revitalizing Quechua in Urban Ayacucho, Peru (Amy Firestone, M.A.in Latin American Studies, 2006; Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics 2012, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  2. Indigenous self-(re)presentation on the internet: the case of the Confederation of Indigenous nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) (Samantha Potempa, M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2009; Communications Coordinator at International Educators of Illinois)
  3. Contact-induced phenomena in Basque: the case of dative over-marking (Itxaso Rodríguez, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2011; Doctoral student at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  4. The social dynamics of joking in a community of practice (Gastón Phillips, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2013; Bilingual Project Editor at Loyola Press)
  5. Courriel, e-mail ou... ? Variation lexicale pour la nomenclature de la messagerie électronique en France (Gyula Zsombok, M.A. in French Linguistics, Defended Feb. 21, 2014; co-directed with Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal)
  6. Linguistic landscape of Mexico's Tourism Website (Daniil Tendera, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2014)
  7. Los usos del pues en el español peninsular (Cristina Mostacero, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2014)
  8. Spanish in contact with Arabic in North Africa (David Beery, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2014)
  9. Imagining the Other: The Politicization of Language and the Racialization of the Spanish Language in the United States (Jonathan Pye, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2015)
  10. Sociolinguistic variation of (r) in Puerto Rican Spanish (Katherine Stegman-Frey, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2015)
  11. Verbal Periphrasis in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish (Paola Enríquez, M.A. Hispanic Linguistics 2018)
  12. Subject Pronoun Expression in two Andean Spanish varieties (Leslie del Carpio, M.A. Hispanic Linguistics 2018)
  13. Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish-English Discourse of Second-Generation Chicago Youth (Keren Garcia, M.A. Hispanic Linguistics 2018)

Director of B.A. Honors Research and Committee

  1. Language Use and Language Attitudes: The Puerto-Rican Community in the US (Lindie Alvey, B.A. with High Distinction, 1994)
  2. La situación sociolingüística del español y el quichua en el Ecuador (Katrina Schlatter, B.A. in Spanish with High Distinction, 1996)
  3. Spanish proverbs (Roxana Hadad, B.A. with High Distinction, 1998)
  4. The use of subjunctive and indicative in nominal subordinate clauses (Niyati Nadkarni, B.A. in Spanish with Distinction, 1999)
  5. Interculturality in Ecuador: A case study (Samantha Potempa, B.A. in International Studies and Spanish with High Distinction, 2006)
  6. El español en las Filipinas: ¿Posible revitalización por política lingüística? (Justin del Rosario, B.A. in Spanish with High Distinction, 2013)

Faculty Supervisor of Graduate Fieldwork - Grant recipients

Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Grant
  1. Quechua language use in the urban Peruvian Andes: A case of revitalization?, Amy Firestone, (fieldwork in Ayacucho andArequipa, Peru, September 2009 – January 2011).

Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship / Nina Baym Dissertation Completion Fellowship (University of Illinois)
  1. Social Dynamics of Catalan-Spanish Contact in the Evolution of Catalonian Spanish, Justin Davidson, 2014-2015.
  2. DOM in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations, Itxaso Rodríguez, 2015-2016.

Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant (University of Illinois)
  1. Catalan-Spanish contact in Catalonia, Justin Davidson (September-December 2012 fieldwork in Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain), 2012.
  2. The acquisition of ergative among L2 speakers of Basque, Itxaso Rodríguez (Fieldwork in the Basque Country, Spain), 2014.

Tinker Research Grant Recipients - Summer fieldwork (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois)
  1. Limean Gay Speech, Renato Rodríguez (fieldwork in Peru), 1997.
  2. A Case of Washback Effect in University Level Language Testing in Argentina, Marina Alonso (fielwork in Argentina), 2001.
  3. Mayan language literacy, Mary Holbrock (fieldwork in Guatemala), 2001.
  4. The sociolinguistic situation on the Brazilian-Uruguayan border, Letania Ferreira (fieldwork in Brazil and Uruguay), 2001.
  5. On Spanish dequeismo: A cross-dialectal study, Carlos del Moral (fieldwork in Argentina and Chile), 2002.
  6. Linguistic attitudes towards the diatopic varieties of Spanish in the Southern cone, Talia Bugel (fieldwork in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay), 2002.
  7. Tone Transfer in Andean Spanish: A case of indigenous language contact, Erin O’Rourke (fieldwork in Peru), 2002.
  8. Subjunctive use in Adverbial clauses in Mexican Spanish, María Isabel Martínez Mira (fieldwork in Mexico), 2003.
  9. Se in the Andean Spanish of Ecuador and Peru: A comparative approach, Antje Muntendam (fieldwork in Ecuador and Peru), 2004.
  10. A description of Spanish as it is used in Foreign Language Classes in South-Eastern and Southern Brazil, Talia Bugel (fieldwork in Brazil), 2004.
  11. Diminutive functions in three varieties of Colombian Spanish, Mónica Millán (fieldwork in Colombia), 2004.
  12. Linguistic Markers of Basque Identity, María Puy Ciriza (fieldwork in Northern Spain), 2005.
  13. Andean Immigrants as Sellers in Lima's Food Markets, Claudia Crespo (fieldwork in Lima, Peru), 2008.
  14. The impact of urban migration on Quechua language use in Arequipa, Peru, Amy Firestone (fieldwork in Arequipa, Peru) 2008.
  15. Mexican Spanish Intonation: Perceptions of the Northern Mexican accent, Claudia Holguín (fieldwork in Ciudad Juárez, México) 2008.
  16. On the status of affricates in Gernika Basque, Olatz Mendiola (fieldwork in Gernika, Basque Country, Spain) 2010.
  17. Contact-induced phenomena in Gernika Basque, Itxaso Rodríguez (fieldwork in Gernika, Basque Country, Spain), 2011.
  18. The use of pues in Ecuadorian Spanish, Cristina Mostacero (fieldwork in Quito, Ecuador), 2015.
  19. Oral Traditions in Rural Peruvian Spanish: Agreement in Accusative Clitic Doubling in Eastern Lambayeque, Fabiola Fernández Doig (fieldwork in Lambayeque, Peru), 2018.

Norman Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Whitten Grant recipients – Graduate Summer fieldwork (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois)
  1. Conversational Verbal Patterns in Rural Lambayeque (Peru), Fabiola Fernández Doig (fieldwork in the region of Lambayeque, Peru), 2017.
  2. Uses of the periphrasis saber + gerund in Ecuadorian Spanish, Paola Enríquez (fieldwork in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador), 2017.

Pasquariello Award Recipient (SIP, University of Illinois)
  1. Phonetic Interference of Catalan in Barcelonan Spanish, Justin Davidson (Summer fieldwork in Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain) 2010.

Spanish and Portuguese Research Grant Recipients - Summer fieldwork (SIP, University of Illinois)
  1. Social variation in the use of Honduran 'Voseo', Jeriel Melgares (fieldwork in Honduras), 2014.
  2. DOM in Basque Spanish, Itxaso Rodríguez (fieldwork in the Basque Country), 2014.
  3. Discourse markers in Spanish: pues, Cristina Mostacero (fieldwork in Ecuador and Spain), 2015.
  4. The processing of scalar implicatures with some and algunos in L2 learners, Cristina Mostacero, 2016.
  5. Subject Pronoun Expression in Quiteño Youth, Leslie del Carpio (fieldwork in Ecuador), 2017.
  6. Discourse markers in monolingual Mexican Spanish, Cristina Mostacero (fieldwork in Mexico), 2018.

Advisor - Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities Program (University of Illinois)
  1. Peers' role in the Chicago Latino high school student's decision to drop out, Heather Hathaway (Spanish Major), 1993.
  2. The African presence in Latin American Spanish, Chinyere Osuji (Spanish and Sociology Major), 2000.
Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees
University of Illinois
  1. The effects of simplification, linguistic item, and language experience on second language learners´ attention to form contained in the input (Ronald Leow, Ph.D., 1991; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics)
  2. Vowel lengthening in Northern Italy: a case for segmental and prosodic optimization (Pilar Prieto-Vives, Ph.D., 1994; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  3.  A constraint-based approach to Spanish phonology (Alfonso Morales-Front, Ph.D., 1994; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  4. Teacher talk and written materials in the Spanish as a second language classroom and their importance as input for second language (Michael Santilli, Ph.D., 1995; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics)
  5. The effect of sentence writing as semantic elaboration on the allocation of processing resources and second language lexical acquisition (Joe Barcroft, Ph.D., 2000; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics)
  6.  The relative effects of processing instruction and meaning-based output instruction on L2 acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive (Andrew Farley, Ph.D., 2000; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics)
  7. Exploring ethnography in L2 assessment: an issue of validity and task variation (Pedro Córdova, Ph.D., 2000; Directors: Profs. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics, and Fred Davidson DEIL/Linguistics)   
  8. Connections in the Bilingual Lexicon (Louise Neary, Ph.D., 2001; Director: Paola Dussias, Spanish/Linguistics)
  9. Sentence processing in Spanish as a Second Language: A study of context, background knowledge, and word order (Tony Houston, Ph.D., 2001; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  10. Acoustic correlates of the Syllable: Evidence from Spanish (Mónica Prieto, Ph.D., 2001; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  11.  Intonation patterns in Dominican Spanish (Erik Willis, Ph.D., 2002; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  12. Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form:  The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing (Michael Leeser, Ph.D., 2002; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics)
  13. La búsqueda de la trascendencia y sus formas poéticas:  San Juan de la Cruz, César Vallejo, y José Angel Valente (María Auxiliadora Alvarez, Ph.D., 2003; Director: Prof. Michael Palencia-Roth, Spanish/Comparative World Literatures and Cultures)
  14. Language Use and Attitudes on Guatemalan Maya Literacy (Mary Holbrock, Ph.D., 2004; Director: Robert Jiménez, Educational Psychology)
  15. The role of grammatical word class in second language incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading (Mary Watts, Ph.D., 2004; Director: Prof. Silvina Montrul, Spanish/Linguistics)
  16. Intonation in Contact: A Comparison of Two Peruvian Spanish Dialects (Erin O’Rourke, Ph.D., 2005; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  17. De la Médina à la Ville Nouvelle: études ethnolinguistiques des choix codiques dans l'espace urbain de Fes (Maroc (Samira Hassa, Ph.D., 2006; Director: Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French/Linguistics)
  18. The Development of Direct Object Pronominal and Anaphoric Expressions in Spanish as a Second Language (Yong Nan Kim, defended thesis in November 2006; Director: Prof. Bill VanPatten, Spanish/Linguistics).
  19. Language Maintenance and Loss in Sardinia. A Case Study of Sardinian and Italian in Cagliari (Antonietta Marongiu, Ph.D. 2007; Director: Prof. Eyamba Bokamba, Linguistics)
  20. The Selectivity of Language Access in Bilinguals: Evidence from Homographic Verbs between Spanish and English (Amy Swanson, Ph.D. 2007; Director: Prof. Paola Dussias, Spanish/Linguistics)
  21. A comparison of Spanish produced by ChineseL2 learners and native speakers: An acoustic approach (Agustín Chen, Ph.D. 2008; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  22. Diphthongization of non-high vowel sequences in Latin American Spanish (Marisol Garrido, Ph.D. 2008; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  23. An Acoustic Study of Voice Stop Allophony in Costa Rican Spanish (Patricio Carrasco, Ph.D. 2008; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  24. Types of transfer and prosodic convergence in language contact: Aspects of  the melody of Catalan and Spanish in Majorca (Miquel Simonet, Ph.D. 2008; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  25. Language Ideology in the Study of Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Youths in Kenya (Leonard Muaka, Ph.D. 2008; Director: Prof. Eyamba Bokamba, Linguistics)
  26. Sociohistorical linguistic analysis of Media Lengua or Chaupi in the Salcedo region of Ecuador (Marco Shappeck, Ph.D. 2010; Director: Prof. Hans Hock, Linguistics)
  27. Prosodically-Conditioned Vowel Characteristics in Four Western-Romance Varieties (Marianna Nadeu, Ph.D. 2013; Director; Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  28. Knowing Respect: Children’s Use of Space, Movement, and Language in Rural Andean Peru (Kate Grim-Feinberg, Ph.D. 2013; Director: Prof. Janet Heller, Anthropology)
  29. Endoglossic and Exoglossic Discourse Markers in speakers of Arabic (Abelaadim Bidaoui, Ph.D. 2015; Director: Prof. Marina Terkourafi, Linguistics)
  30. Maintenance of French and Creole by the Haitian Community of Chicago (Johnny Laforet, Ph.D. 2016; Director: Prof. Eyamba Bokamba, Linguistics)
  31. Dialectal Variation in Articulatory Settings (Christopher Eager, Ph.D. 2017; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  32. French variation and change in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean in Quebec (Jessica Nicholas, Ph.D. 2018; Director: Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French/Linguistics)
  33. Literacies of Immigrant Mexican Families in Urbana-Champaign (Viviana Presiado, Ph.D. 2019; Director: Luz Murillo, Curriculum & Instruction)
  34. English Borrowing in French: The Case of Institutional Pressure (Gyula Zsombok, To defend doctoral dissertation in Fall 2019; Director: Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French/Linguistics)
  35. Les représentations linguistiques de l’espace: le cas de la Vallée d’Aoste (Alessia Zulato, ABD; Director: Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French/Linguistics)
  36. The fine line of English in South Korea: Balancing modernity and tradition (Jenna Chi, ABD; Director: Prof. Adrienne Lo, Anthropology/Educational Psychology/Linguistics)
Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees (at other institutions): 
  1. Estructura de textos anecdóticos en hablantes bilingües de Español-Otomí (Karola Rico, Ph.D. 2019; Director: Eva Velásquez Upegui, Universidad de Querétaro, Mexico)
  2. Castellano de Tupe: Norma regional y variación lingüística (Kim Kyounglai, Ph.D. 2018; Director: Luis Andrade Ciudad, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Member of M.A. Thesis or Paper Committees (University of Illinois): 
  1. Hedges in Mexican and Venezuelan Spanish (Lori Czerwionka, M.A. in Linguistics, 2005; Director: Prof. Jerry Morgan, Linguistics).
  2. Intonational influence in the speech of Andean migrants in Buenos Aires (Krista Evensen, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2014; Director: Prof. José Ignacio Hualde, Spanish/Linguistics)
  3. Figurative language in L2 speakers of Spanish (Chase Krebs, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2014; Director: Prof. Jill Jegerski, Spanish/Linguistics)
  4. Infinitival Subjects in Basque Spanish (Almike Vázquez-Lozares, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2017; Director: Prof. Jonathan McDonald, Spanish/Linguistics)