Selected Presentations

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS (most recent first)

  1. "Modeling diverging diphthongization patterns from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2021 (KFLC 2021), University of Kentucky, Lexington KY. 22-24 Apr 2021. (Conference held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

  2. "The influence of Castilian on the development of personal(ized) infinitives in Ibero-Romance. Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2021 Conference, Virtual Edition. 5-6 Mar 2021.

  3. “A longitudinal study of hesitation markers in Mexico City Spanish: este and eh then and now.” Poster, 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2021), San Francisco, CA. 7-10 Jan 2021. (Conference held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

  4. “The influence of Castilian on the development of personal(ized) infinitives in Ibero-Romance.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2020 (KFLC 2020), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 16-18 Apr 2020. (Conference cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

  5. “Auxiliary haber within the clitic template of Old Spanish.” Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina Conference 2020 (SLINKI 2020), Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. 8 Feb 2020.

  6. "Interpolation in Ibero-Romance: clitic-verb adjacency as a sub-parameter of FP strength." Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2019 (HLS 2019), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX. 24-26 Oct 2019.

  7. “On enclisis, interpolation, and the gradience of FP in Ibero-Romance: evidence from Spanish.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2018 (KFLC 2018), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 19-21 Apr 2018.

  8. “Variation and attention focus: mira vs. fíjate in San Juan and Mexico City.” The XXI Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL 2018), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 30-31 Mar 2018.

  9. "Old Spanish haber in modal and auxiliary periphrases: polysemy or polyfunctionality?" 6th Annual Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (LHLS 6), University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 29-30 Sept 2017.

  10. “The transition of haber from auxiliary to modal in Old Spanish: evidence from cliticization patterns.” KFLC 2017, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 20-22 Apr 2017.

  11. "Enclisis and interpretation in Old Spanish as evidence of gradient strength of FP in Ibero-Romance." Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI) 2017 Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 11 Feb 2017.

  12. "A diachronic account of first-position clitic avoidance in Old Spanish perfect constructions." Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) 2016, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 7-9 Oct 2016.

  13. "On the historical evolution of este as a hesitational discourse marker in Latin American Spanish." OSUCHiLL 2016, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 15-16 Apr 2016.

  14. "Variation in hesitation: the case of este vs. eh in Latin American Spanish." Poster, SLINKI/Spanish Linguistics in the Southeast (SLISE) 2016 Conference, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. 6 Feb 2016.

  15. "Rethinking FP as a multi-layered domain: evidence from Old and Modern Spanish." KFLC 2015, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 23-25 Apr 2015.

  16. "Clitic placement and the grammaticalization of the Spanish and Portuguese future and conditional." KFLC 2013, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 18-20 Apr 2013.

  17. "Comparing hesitation markers in Sanjuanero Spanish." Poster, SLINKI 2012, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC. 21 Jan 2012.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (most recent first)

  1. "Discourse, not disfluency: Hesitation markers and sociolinguistic identity in Spanish." Keynote address, The 23rd Annual Mason-Sekora Lecture, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. 27 Feb 2020.

  2. “Discourse marker usage as a sociolinguistic indicator of identity.” Keynote address, Crossroads Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 9-10 Feb 2018.