Research

RESEARCH

As a graduate student in Spanish linguistics at Penn State, I have tried to gain as much research experience as I could in the past years to prepare myself for the research I will have to conduct for my PhD thesis. Much of this research experience that I have been able to gain centered around bilingualism, language contact and language loss.

On this page I will post the most recent developments in this line of work. Information on past research work and presentations can be found on my CV.

Manuscripts in progress:

“Comparing Dominican linguistic (in)security in the Dominican Republic and in the Diaspora” (manuscript in progress, to be submitted to the HLS 2008 Conference Proceedings)
"Puerto Rican attitudes towards Dominican Spanish” (manuscript in progress, to be submitted to Spanish in Context)

Conference Presentations:

Hispanic Linguistics Conference, October 23rd -26th, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. Title: "Comparing Dominican linguistic (in)security in the Dominican Republic and in the Diaspora"

New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV37), November 6th-9th, Houston, Texas. Title:"Puerto Rican attitudes towards Dominican Spanish”

PhD Thesis :

Title: Perceptions of Dominican Spanish and Dominican self-perception in the Puerto Rican Diaspora