Welcome to the Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Spanish Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, & Sociolinguistics Faculty

Richard Cameron, Associate Professor of Linguistics

Alejandro Cuza, Assistant Professor

Kay E. González-Vilbazo, Assistant Professor

Luis López, Professor

Kara Morgan-Short, Assistant Professor

Kim Potowski, Assistant Professor

Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Professor, Director, Study Abroad Programs

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Richard Cameron
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Joint Appointment in Dept. of English
PhD University of Pennsylvania

Contact Details:
Location : 2020 UH
Phone No : 312-413-5885
Email id : rcameron@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Variationist Sociolinguistics; Language Change, Gender, Age, Social Class, Applications to Education; Discourse Analysis / Pragmatics; Functional Syntax, Anaphora, Inference, Medical Discourse; Phonology & Phonetics; Acoustic Analysis

Selected Publications:

• 2003. With Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Luis Lopez-Carretero. A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected Papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19-22 April

• 2001. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Forthcoming. Definition of “Dialect” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Patrick Hogan, Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 2005. Aging and gendering. Language in Society. 2005. 34(1): 23-61.

• 2004. With Nydia Flores Ferrán. Perseveration of Subject Expression across Regional Dialects of Spanish. Spanish in Context. 1(1): 41-65.

• 2002. With Susanne Rott and Jessica Williams. The Effect of Multiple-Choice L1 Glosses and Input-Output Cycles on Lexical Acquisition and Retention. Language
Teaching Research. 6(3): 183-222.

• 2000. Language change or changing selves?: Direct quotation strategies in the Spanish of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Diachronica. 17(2): 249-292.

• 1998. A variable syntax of speech, gesture, and sound effect: Direct quotations in Spanish. Language Variation and Change. 10(1): 43-83.

• 1998. A language-focused needs analysis for ESL-speaking nursing students in class and clinic. Foreign Language Annals. 31(2): 202-218.

• 1997. Accessibility theory in a variable syntax of Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics. 28: 29-67.

• 1996. A community-based test of a linguistic hypothesis. Language in Society. 25(1): 61-111.

Fellowships / Awards:
2006. WOW Award at UIC.
2005. Seed Grant from Office of Social Science Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago for Acoustic Measurement in Sociolinguistic Research of Chicago Englishes.

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Alejandro Cuza
Assistant Professor
PhD University of Toronto

Contact Details:

Major Interests:
Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, L1 Attrition, Spanish Morphosyntax and Semantics

Selected Publications:
[submitted]
The L2 acquisition of aspectual properties in Spanish. Canadian Journal of Linguistics .

[in press]
(With Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Monica Majzlanova & Jeannette Sánchez-Naranjo). Non-native recognition of the iterative and habitual meanings of Spanish preterite and imperfect tenses. In Juana M. Liceras, Helmut Zobl and Helen Goodluck (Eds.) The role of formal features in second language acquisition. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers .

2006
(With Ana T. Pérez-Leroux)
I came long time ago: language attrition in long-time bilinguals. Bilingual/Bicultural Family Magazine . http://www.biculturalfamily.org/apr06/icamelongtimeago.html

2006
Review of First Language Acquisition. Eve Clark (Ed.). In Journal ofMultilingual and Multicultural Development 27, 2, 162-163.

2004
(With Juana Liceras, Cristina Senn & Todd Spradlin)
Spanish acquisition in the classroom without formal input: “exocentric” compounds of the Spanish interlanguage. In Revista Electrónica de Didáctica/Español Lengua Extranjera. Numero 0, March 2004. Spain.

 Fellowships/Awards:
2005. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Government of Canada

2004. Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Province of Ontario , Canada.

2004. Milton A. Buchanan Travel Fellowship. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto

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Luis López
Professor,
PhD Cornell University


Contact : luislope@uic.edu

Interests:

Syntactic theory, including syntactic interfaces with other linguistic modules. Romance linguistics. Language ideologies in Spain.

On-going research and forthcoming publications:

• VP structure and Focus/Accent Structure: Evidence from Code-Switching. Article manuscript.With Kay González-Vilbazo. In preparation.

• A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure. Book manuscript. To appear in Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Oxford University Press. Publication expected December 2008.

• ‘Ranking the LCA’. Article manuscript. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry, Spring 2009.

• "Zur Analyse der Rechtsversetzung im Romanischen". Book chapter. To appear in Natascha Pomino and Eva Remberger (eds) Romanische Syntax - Minimalistisch. Tübingen: Narr. Publication expected Spring 2008

Recent Fellowships:

Jan 2005-May 2006     Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. Guest researcher at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.

Summer 2003               Research Fellowship awarded by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Guest researcher at the University of Tübingen.

Books:

2007            Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.                     http://www.palgrave.com/newsearch/Catalogue.aspx?is=0230507727

2004           Language Knowledge and Language Use: Selected Papers from LSRL XXXI. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
                   Edited volume with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Richard Cameron. 

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

2008            “The [person] restriction: why and why not”. In Agreement Restrictions, edited by Roberta D’Alessandro, Gunnar Hrafbjargarsson and                       Susann Fischer. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp 129-157.

2007            “The Origins of Spanish Revisited: Linguistic Science, Language Ideology and Nationalism in Contemporary Spain” Bulletin of Spanish                       Studies 84, 3: 287-313.Inquiry 32.3: 521-532.

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Kay E. González-Vilbazo
Assistant Professor
PhD University of Cologne (Germany)

Contact Details:
Location:1720 UH
Phone No: +1 (312) 996 8485
Email id: kgv@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Bilingualism, Code-Switching in syntax, morphology and phonology, syntax-semantics-interface, compositional semantics, Romance and Germanic languages.
Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Language

Selected Works:

• "Asymmetrien im Code-Switching: Eine DM-Lösung zur Partizipselektion" (Asymmetries in Code-Switching: a DM-solution to participle selection). In Mensching, G. & Remberger E. Romanistische Sprachwissenschaft – minimalistisch, Tübingen: G. Narr Verlag (with Volker Struckmeier), to appear.

• "Spuren des Verschwindens" (Traces of disappearance). In Pusse, T. (Ed.) Rethoriken des Verschwindens, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann (with Volker Struckmeier), to appear.

• "Die Kopula im Romanischen" (The copula in romance languages). In: Geist, L. & E. Löbel (Eds.): Kopulaverben und Kopulasätze (Copula verbs and copula sentences), Tübingen: Niemeyer. (with Eva-Maria Remberger), to appear.

• "Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish." - In: Maienborn, Claudia & Angelika Wöllstein (eds.): Event Arguments in Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse. Tübingen: Niemeyer 89-112. (with Eva-Maria Remberger), 2005.

• Die Syntax des Code-Switching. Esplugisch: Sprachwechsel an der Deutschen Schule Barcelona (The syntax of Code-Switching: Code-Switching at the German School of Barcelona). Doctoral Dissertation. Universität zu Köln. (to be published by Niemeyer: Linguistische Arbeiten), 2005.

• "Nicolás de Oresme. La rotación de la Tierra en la Edad Media" (Nicole d’Oresme. Earth rotation in the Middle Ages). In: Universo, oct. 1998, Barcelona.

• "Los inicios del heliocentrismo: Aristarco de Samos" (The beginnings of heliocentrism: Aristarch of Samos). Universo, nov. 1997, Barcelona.

• K.R. Popper. Berlin: Morgenbuch (with Wilhelm Baum), 1994.

Fellowships/Awards:
University of Illinois, Jr. Faculty Research and Travel Support, 2006.
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Kara Morgan-Short
Assistant Professor
PhD Georgetown University

Contact details

Major Interests:

Issues in adult second language acquisition, including the neurocognition of second languages, the role of explicit and implicit knowledge in second languages, the effects of explicit and implicit conditions, the effects of types of practice and the use of verbal protocols.

Selected Publications:

 Morgan-Short, K. , & Bowden, H. W. (2006). Processing Instruction and Meaningful Output-Based Instruction: Effects on second language development. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28(1), 31-65. Sanz, C., &

Morgan-Short, K. (2005). Explicitness in pedagogical interventions: Input, practice, and feedback . In C. Sanz (Ed.), Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Methods, Theory, and Practice . Georgetown University Press.

Sanz, C., & Morgan-Short, K. (2004). Positive evidence vs. explicit rule presentation and explicit negative feedback: A computer-assisted study. Language Learning, 54(1), 35-78.

Leow, R., & Morgan-Short, K. (2004). To think aloud or not to think aloud: The issue of reactivity in SLA research methodology. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26(1), 35-57.

Fellowships/Awards:

2006 – 2007 Georgetown University Dissertation Fellowship

2005 – 2007 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, Grant # 0446836, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, National Science Foundation

2003 – 2006 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, Grant # 5 F31 MH067407-02, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health

2003, 2004, 2006 Georgetown University Graduate School Travel Grant

2000 Georgetown University Teaching, Learning and Technology Summer Institute Technology Implementation Grants

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Kim Potowski
Assistant Professor.
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Contact Details :
Location : 1707 UH
Phone: (312) 996-8524
Email id: kimpotow@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Heritage language development; Spanish in the U.S.;
language & identity; dual immersion education.

Selected Works:

• Language and identity in a dual immersion school. Multilingual Matters, 2007.

• Dicho y hecho, 8th edition. With Laila Dawson & Silvia Sobral. 2007. John Wiley & Sons.

• “Interethnic language and identity: MexiRicans in Chicago.” Forthcoming, Journal of Language, Identity and Education.

• Spanish in Contact: Educational, Linguistic, and Social Inquiries. Selected proceedings from the 20th Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 5th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. With Richard Cameron. Forthcoming, John Benjamins.

• “¿Por qué ofrecen una clase para hispanohablantes?” In J. Ewald & A. Engstrom (Eds.), Perspectivas: El español a la luz de la lingüística. Forthcoming. Cascadilla.

• “The role of mothers in the development of MexiRican identity.” In J. Rothman & M. Niño-Murcia (Eds.), Linguistic Identity and Bilingualism in Different Hispanic Contexts. Forthcoming. John Benjamins.

• Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a los hablantes natives en los Estados Unidos (Foundations in teaching Spanish to native speakers in the United States). Arco/Libros, 2005.

• “Latino children's classroom language use: The role of identity investments.” In M. Farr (Ed.), Ethnolinguistic Chicago, Volume II: Latino Language and Literacy (157-185). 2005. Lawrence Erlbaum.

• “Towards teacher development and national standards for Spanish as a heritage language.” 2004. Foreign Language Annals 37 (3), 421-431.

• “Spanish language shift in Chicago.” 2004. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 23 (1), 87-116.

• “Student Spanish use and investment in a dual immersion classroom: Implications for second language acquisition and heritage language maintenance.” 2004. Modern Language Journal, 88 (1), 75-101.

• Chicago's Heritage Language Teacher Corps: A model for improving Spanish teacher development. 2003. Hispania, 86 (2), 302-311.

• Experiences of Spanish heritage speakers in university foreign language courses and implications for teacher training. 2002. ADFL Bulletin, 33 (3), 35-42.

Fellowships/Awards:

University of Illinois at Chicago, Great Cities Institute research fellowship. Arresting attrition: Spanish language maintenance in Chicago’s elementary schools. 2006-2007.

American Association of University Women postdoctoral grant. Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish in Chicago. 2006.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Recognition Program award. 2003

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Rafael Núñez-Cedeño
PhD University of Minnesota
Professor
Director, Study Abroad Programs
Co-editor, Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance
Linguistics (a Mouton de Gruyter Publication, Germany)


Contact Details:
Location: 1721 UH
Phone no: 312-996-0271
Email id: rnunez@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Spanish phonology, morphology, dialectology, and the acquisition of Spanish phonology.

Selected Publications:

• La fonología moderna y el español de Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Editorial Taller (1980).

• Estudios sobre la fonología del español del Caribe, co-authored with Páez Urdaneta & Jorge M. Guitart.Caracas: Fundación Casa de Bello (1986).

• Studies in Romance Languages, co-authored with Carol Neidle. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications (1987).

• Morfología de la sufijación española Santo Domingo: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1993).

• Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española co-authored with Alfonso Morales-Front. Georgetown University Press (1999).

• Language Knowledge and Use: a Romance Perspective, co-authored with Luis López and Richard Cameron, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing (2003).

Fellowships/Awards/Honors:

Premio Siboney del Ensayo in1979 for La fonología moderna y el español de Santo Domingo.

Premioc Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in 1993 for Morfología de la sufijación española.
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