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Meet Dr. Aarnes Gudmestad
MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES & LITERATURE
Dr. Aarnes Gudmestad is Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. She specializes in second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, and her research explores the intersection of the two fields. Her current projects address issues pertaining to morphosyntactic structures (e.g., grammatical gender, the subjunctive-indicative contrast, subject expression, future-time reference) in Spanish and French. They include examinations of multicompetent speakers and analyses of the acquisition of variation. Dr. Gudmestad is also interested in quantitative research methods and the acquisition of lexical competence. She has received the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences’ Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award and the Excellence in Advising Award. In the Language Sciences Program, she teaches courses such as SPAN 3494 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics and SPAN 3544 Sounds of Spanish. She has mentored undergraduate students interested in conducting research on a range of topics in Hispanic linguistics, and her students have pursued careers in medicine, law, linguistics, education, and engineering.
Publications
Publications
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Gudmestad, A. (Ed.). (2021). Morphosyntactic structures in French and Spanish: Advances in research on multicompetent speakers. Languages, 6.
Edmonds, A., Leclercq, P., & Gudmestad, A. (Eds.). (2020). Interpreting language-learning data (Eurosla Studies 4). Language Science Press.
Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (Eds.). (2018). Critical reflections on data in second language acquisition. John Benjamins.
Articles
Gudmestad, A., & Kanwit, M. (2025). Reconsidering the social in language learning: A state of the science and an agenda for future research in variationist SLA. Languages, 10(4), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10040064
Gudmestad, A., & Metzger, T. A. (2025). Mixed-effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable. Language Learning, 75(1), 212-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12667
Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2024). Consistency as a baseline measure for tracking change in grammatical gender marking. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 8(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.126
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Henderson, C., & Lindqvist, C. (2024). The interpretation of verbal moods in Spanish: A close replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014). Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46, 1337-1354. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226312400010X
Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2023). Phraseological use and development during a stay abroad: Exploring sensitivity to frequency and cue contingency. Language Learning, 73, 475-507.
Gudmestad, A., (2022). Development of grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics in an additional language: Insights from Spanish learner corpus research. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 9, 161-173.
Gudmestad, A., & Carmichael, K. (2022). A variationist analysis of first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French. Language Variation and Change, 34, 53-77.
Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2022). Exploring crosslinguistic influence in gender marking in Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44, 998-1019.
Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2021). Collocational development during a stay abroad. Languages, 6(1), 12.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2021). Moving beyond the native-speaker bias in the analysis of variable gender marking. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 165.
Edmonds, A., Gudmestad, A., & Metzger, T. (2020). A longitudinal study of grammatical-gender marking in French as an additional language. Applied Linguistics, 41, 733-755.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2020). Near-native sociolinguistic competence in French: Evidence from variable future-time expression. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23(1), 169-191.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2020). Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 24-34.
Carmichael, K., & Gudmestad, A. (2019). Language death and subject expression: First-person-singular subjects in a declining dialect of Louisiana French. Journal of French Language Studies, 29, 67-91.
Gudmestad, A., & Clay, R. (2019). Prepositions in contexts of coordination: The developmental trajectory and language variation. Hispania, 102(1), 75-90.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2019). Using variationism and learner corpus research to investigate grammatical gender marking in additional-language Spanish. Language Learning, 69(4), 911-949.
Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2018). Gender marking in written L2 French: Before, during, and after residence abroad. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 3(1), 58-83.
Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2018). On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 63(1), 42-69.
Edmonds, A., Gudmestad, A., & Donaldson, B. (2017). A concept-oriented analysis of future-time reference in native and near-native Hexagonal French. Journal of French Language Studies, 27(3), 381-404.
Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2016). Subject expression in Spanish: Contrasts between native and non-native speakers for first and second-person singular referents. Spanish in Context, 13(1), 53-79.
Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2016). Variable future-time reference in French: A comparison of learners in a study-abroad and a foreign-language context. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 61(3), 259-285.
Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2015). What the present can tell us about the future: A variationist analysis of future-time expression in native and non-native French. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 6(1), 15-41.
Gudmestad, A. (2015). The case of the conditional and the imperfect in variable mood-choice contexts in second-language and native-speaker Spanish. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 28(1), 118-144.
Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2015). Categorical and variable mood distinction in Hexagonal French: Factors characterising use for native and non-native speakers. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 18(1), 107-131.
Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2014). Your participation is greatly/highly appreciated: Amplifier collocations in L2 English. Canadian Modern Language Review, 70(1), 76-102.
Gudmestad, A. (2013). Tense-aspect distinctions within the subjunctive mood in the Spanish of native speakers and second-language learners. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6(1), 4-35.
Gudmestad, A., House, L., & Geeslin, K. L. (2013). What a Bayesian analysis can do for SLA: New tools for the sociolinguistic study of subject expression in L2 Spanish. Language Learning, 63(3), 371-399.
Gudmestad, A. (2012). Acquiring a variable structure: An interlanguage analysis of second-language mood use in Spanish. Language Learning, 62(2), 373-402.
Gudmestad, A. (2012). Individual lexical triggers and variable mood use in Spanish. International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, 31(2), 3-27.
Gudmestad, A., & Geeslin, K. L. (2011). Assessing the use of multiple forms in variable contexts: The relationship between linguistic factors and future-time reference in Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4(1), 3-33.
Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2010). An exploration of the range and frequency of occurrence of forms in potentially variable structures in second-language Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32(3), 433-463.
Gudmestad, A. (2010). Moving beyond a sentence-level analysis in the study of variable mood use in Spanish. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 29(1), 25-51.
Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2008). The acquisition of variation in second-language Spanish: An agenda for integrating studies of the L2 sound system. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 5(2), 137-157.
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