Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Mixing Things Up: How blocking and mixing affect the processing of codemixed sentences Michael Johns (B.A. in Spanish and Linguistics from UF, 2014) is a NSF Graduate Fellow in Penn State's Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, pursuing a PhD in Language Science and Spanish. His research focuses on the link between production and processing, which he explores through the incorporation of sociolinguistic and corpus-based research into psycholinguistic and lab-based experiments examining bilingual codemixing.

Three islands, one Creole nation: varying outcomes of contact with Spanish in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia Falcon Restrepo is a Ph.D. Candidate in UF's Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.

On the Effects of Explicit Instruction in Beginning Spanish Classes: A Further Look at the Trill /r/ As interest in second language (L2) phonology continues to grow, so too do the questions associated with the acquisition of foreign language sound systems. One of these enduring questions relates to the role and effectiveness of explicit instruction in helping students acquire L2 sounds (e.g., Elliott 2003; Morin 2007).  Indeed, a growing body work shows that explicit instruction can indeed be beneficial at…

Claudia Costagliola (Ph.D., University of Florida) will be visiting us from Western Oregon University to talk about her recent book publication, El sida en la literatura cuir/queer latinoamericana. (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017).