Selected Presentations
REFEREED PRESENTATIONS (most recent first)
"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)
"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.
“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)
“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)
“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.
"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.
“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.
“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.
"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.
“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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Rethinking FP as a multi-layered domain: evidence from Old and Modern Spanish." KFLC 2015, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 23-25 Apr 2015.
"Clitic placement and the grammaticalization of the Spanish and Portuguese future and conditional." KFLC 2013, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 18-20 Apr 2013.
"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)
"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.
“Discourse marker usage as a sociolinguistic indicator of identity.” Keynote address, Crossroads Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 9-10 Feb 2018.