Research

Current Research Projects   

Sociolinguistic Variation in L2 Acquisition


Spanish in the Border Area


Publications


Journal Articles

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2022). L2 development of dialect awareness in Spanish. Hispania, 105(2), 267-284. 

Schmidt, Lauren B., & Kimberly L. Geeslin (2022). Acquisition of linguistic competence: Development of sociolinguistic evaluations of regional varieties in a second language. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 35(1), 206-235.

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2022). Un estudio exploratorio de los predictores lingüísticos y sociales de la sonorización de /s/ en Quito, Ecuador. Forma y Función, 35(1).

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2020). Role of developing language attitudes in a study abroad context on adoption of dialectal pronunciations. Foreign Language Annals, 53(4), 785-806. 

Sedó, Beatriz, Lauren B. Schmidt, & Erik W. Willis. (2020). Rethinking the phonological process of /s/ voicing assimilation in Spanish: An acoustic comparison of three regional varieties. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13(1), 167-217.

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2018). L2 development of perceptual categorization of dialectal sounds: A study in Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40(4), 857-882.

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2015). Effects of regional media, travel, and social contacts on the perception of Spanish aspirated-/s/. Borealis - An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 4(1), 99-120.

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2014). Contextual variation in L2 Spanish: Voicing assimilation in advanced learner speech. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7(1), 1-35.


Book Chapters

Schmidt, Lauren B., Bret Linford & Stephen Fafulas (2022). Regional variation. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics (chapter 10). New York & London: Taylor & Francis. 

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2019).The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ]. In W. Chappell (Ed.), Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish: Sociophonetic Perception, Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series (pp. 188-209). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Geeslin, Kimberly L., & Lauren B. Schmidt (2018). Study abroad and L2 learner attitudes. In C. Sanz & A. Morales-Front (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice (chapter 25). London: Routledge.

Geeslin, K. L., Gudmestad, A., Kanwit, M., Linford, B., Long, A. Y., Schmidt, L., & Solon, M. (2018). Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking. In R. Alonso Alonso (Ed.), Speaking in a Second Language (pp. 2-25). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Refereed Conference Proceedings

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2023). Effects of dialect exposure on the processing of Argentine regional phones by English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2487-2491. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International. 

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2013). Regional variation in the perception of sociophonetic variants of Spanish /s/. In S. Beaudrie & A. Carvalho (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, pp. 189-202. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

Schmidt, Lauren B. & Erik W. Willis (2011). Voicing assimilation of Spanish /s/ in Mexico City. In S. Alvord (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, pp. 1-20. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

Schmidt, Lauren B. (2009). The effect of dialect familiarity via a study abroad experience on L2 comprehension of Spanish.In J. Collentine et al. (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 143-154. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.