Scholarly Work

Publications

Callen, M. C. (in prep). Lexical and semantic constraints on differential object marking in adult heritage speakers of Spanish.

Callen, M. C. (in prep). Children’s acquisition of variable plural marking in Brazilian Portuguese. [Invited to submit a manuscript for a special issue of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech]

Callen, M. C., & Miller, K. (2022). Children’s acquisition of variable differential object marking in Spanish. In Y. Gong & F. Kpogo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 76–89). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-06.pdf

Callen, M. C., & Miller, K. (2022). Linguistic variation in the acquisition of morphosyntax: Variable object marking in the speech of Mexican children and their caregivers. Language Learning and Development, 18(3), 310–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1977133 

Conference Presentations

Callen, M. C. (2023, Nov. 2–5). Linguistic and extralinguistic constraints on school-age children's use of variable nominal plural marking in Brazilian Portuguese. [Conference presentation]. 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States. Abstract accepted. 

Callen, M. C. (2023, April 6). Systematic lexical and semantic variation in heritage Spanish speakers’ use of differential object marking. [Conference presentation]. 2023 Conference on Spanish in the US / Spanish in Contact with other Languages, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States. 

Callen, M. C. (2023, March 10). Effects of grammaticality and literacy on morphosyntactic processing in a heritage language. [Poster presentation]. 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. 

Callen, M. C. (2022, April 8). Variable production of differential object marking in bilingual heritage speakers of Spanish. [Conference presentation]. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2022, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States. 

Callen, M. C., & Miller, K. (2021, Nov. 5). Children’s acquisition of variable differential object marking in Spanish. [Pre-recorded conference presentation]. 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States. 

Callen, M. C. (2021, Oct. 9). Acquisition of variable Differential Object Marking in Spanish-speaking children. [Virtual conference presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States. 

Kerschen, K., Rocker, M., & Callen, M. C. (2019, Oct. 11). Another non-null subject language: Variable subject expression in German. [Conference presentation]. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States.