Alumni

 A

• Anrrich, Graciela (PhD – 2007):
  Substitutions for English Consonants by Adult Speakers of Cuban Spanish
  Mentor: Jorge M. Guitart


• Armstrong, Grant (PhD- 2011): 
  Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
  Dissertation Advisors: Héctor Campos and Elena Herburger​


• Arteagoitia, Igone (PhD – 1999): 
  A Crosslisting Study of Second Language Processing in Spanish and Basque
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow

B

• Bistline-Bonilla, Chrissy (PhD – 2020):
  Interaction in SCMS: The effects of interlocutor, task, and state anxiety
  Mentors: Dr Ronald Leow


• Bowden, Harriet (PhD – 2007):
  The Role of Experience in Second Language Neurocognition
  Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman


• Bowles, Melissa A. (PhD – 2005): 
  Effect of Verbilization Condition and Type of Feedback on L2 Development in a CALL Task
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow

C

• Camblor-Portilla, Maria Teresa (PhD – 2006): 
  Written Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development: A Computerized Study
  ​Mentor: Ronald P. LeowCamus Oyarzun, Pablo (PhD – 2016): Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Culture at Soka University.
  The effects of pronunciation instruction on the production of second language Spanish: A classroom
  ​Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front


• Camps, Joaquim (PhD – 1997): 
  Attention to Form and Meaning in Second Language Acquisition: Object Clitic Pronouns in Spanish
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz


• Cerezo-Ceballo, Luis (PhD- 2010):
  Talking to Avatars: The computer as a tutor and the incidence of learner’s agency, feedback, and grammatical form in SLA
  Dissertation Advisor: Ronald P. Leow and Christina Sanz


• Choi, Jinny Kyungjin (PhD – 1998):
  Languages in Contact: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Paraguayan Spanish from a Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspective
  Mentor: Thomas Walsh


• Cox, Jessica (PhD – 2013):
  Bilingualism, Aging, and Instructional Conditions in Non-Primary Language Development
  Mentor: Cristina SanzCruz, Abel (PhD – 2021):
  The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched DPs
  
  Mentor: Lourdes Ortega and Ronald P. Leow
  

   

  
  
  
  

D

• Driver, Meagan (PhD – 2020):
  Emotion, motivation, and vocabulary learning: A study of heritage and foreign language learners of Spanish
  Co-mentores: Lourdes Ortega y Ron LeowDeRobles, Gabriela (PhD – 2019):
  The Effects of Type of Written Corrective Feedback and Level of Proficiency on Processing and Accuracy in Heritage Language Learners of Spanish
  Mentor: Ronald LeowDonatelli, Lucia (PhD – 2019):
  The Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals
  Dissertation Advisors: Héctor Campos, Ph.D., Ruth Kramer, Ph.D.

F

• Fuente, Maria Jose de la (PhD – 1998):
  Negotiation and L2 Vocabulary: The Role of Input and Output in the Receptive and Productive Acquisition of Words
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


• Falcon, Sandra M. (PhD – 2004):
  Attitudes Toward Languages in Contact: Spanish, English, and Intellectuals in Puerto Rico
  Mentor: Thomas Walsh


• Faulkner, Tris (PhD – 2021):
  A Systematic Investigation of Spanish Subjunctive: Mood Variation in Subjunctive Clauses 
  Co-Mentors: Elena Herberger and Paul PorterFernandez Rubiera, Francisco (In Progress)
  On Clitic Placement in Asturian
  Mentor:

G

• Gordon, Leslie (PhD – 2008):
  Factors Affecting L2 Perception of Spanish Vowels by English speakers
  Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front


• Greenslade-Felix, Terri A. (PhD – 2001)
  The Effects of Word Order on the Intake, Text Comprehension, and Sentence Interpretation and Production of Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz


• Grey, Sarah (PhD – 2013)
  A neurocognitive investigation of bilingual advantages at additional language learning
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

H

• Hayer, Holly J. (PhD – 1997):
  Input Enhancement for Explicit Knowledge in a Communicative Foreign Language Classroom: Effect on Semi-Spontaneous Oral Production and Explicit Knowledge
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


• Hemmer, Robert A. (PhD – 1993):
  Criteria for Syllabus Design: Interactive Complexity and the Sequencing of Scenarios
  Mentor: John Staczek


• Holt, David E. (PhD – 1997):
  Constraints and Constraint Ranking: Topics in the Development of Syllable Structure from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese
  Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front


• Hsieh, Hui-Chen (PhD – 2007):
  Practice, Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development through a Computerized Task
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow

J

• Johnson Serafini, Ellen (PhD – 2013):
  Cognitive and psychosocial factors in the long-term development of implicit and explicit second language knowledge in adult learners of Spanish at increasing proficiency
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

K

• Killingsworth, Cristi (PhD – 2020):
  Flunecy, WOrking memory, and L2 Proficiency in Multicompetent Writers
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

L

• Lado, Beatriz (PhD – 2008):
  The Role of Level of Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Type of Feedback on the Acquisition of Non-primary Languages
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz


• Leeman, Jennifer (PhD – 2000):
  Towards a New Classification of Input: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Recasts, Negative Evidence, and Enhanced Salience on L2 Development
  Mentor: Alison Mackey


• Lopez-Cortina, Jorge (PhD – 2008):
  The Left Periphery of Spanish Interrogative Structures
  Mentor: Hector Campos

M

• McCormick, Timothy (PhD – 2020) :
  Early and emergent bilinguals: The role of  cognitive control in the processing of linguistic conflict
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz


• Méndez-Seijas, Jorge (PhD – 2020) : 
  Secong Language Spanish Intonation: Phoenetic and Phonological Dimensions of its Acquisitions Mentor: Alfonso Morales Front Ph.D. / Committee Members: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D. & Germán Zárate-Sández, Ph.D.


• Marijuan, Silvia (PhD – 2015) :
  (El)la mapping: An integrated account of learning context, feedback and agreement morphology in the processing of OclVS sentences in advanced L2 Spanish
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz


• Marrano, Ann M. (PhD – 1998):
  The Syntax of Modality: A Comparative Study of Epistemistic and Root Modal Verbs in Spanish and English
  Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini


• Mayer, K. (PhD – 2008):
  The acquisition of late-acquired clitics in the competition model framework.
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D.


• Mayer, Kaylea (PhD – 2008):
  Spanish Object-Verb Clitic Complexity and the Competition Model: The Facilitative Effects of the Acquisition of One Linguistic Structure on a Second
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

• Medina, Almitra (PhD – 2008):
  Concurrent Verbalization, Task Complexity, and Working Memory: Effects on L2 Learning in a Computerized Task
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


• Moorman, C. (co-director, December 2017):
  Individual differences and linguistic factors in the development of mid vowels in L2 Spanish learners: A longitudinal study.
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D. & Alfonso Morales-Front, Ph.D.

• Moreno, Nina (PhD – 2007):
  The Effects of Type of Feedback and Type of Task on L2 Development in CALL
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


• Morgan-Short, Kara (PhD – 2007):
  A Neurolinguistic Investigation of SLA: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Conditions
  Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman


• Morin, Regina C. (PhD – 1997):
  The Nonproductivity of Softening Alternations in Spanish
  Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front

• Mun, Jeong C. (PhD – 2022):
  Contributions Of Cross-Linguistic Influence And Language Aptitude To The Perception And Production Of L3 Spanish Labial Stops Among Korean-English Bilinguals Of Varying L3 Proficiency
  

  Mentors: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D. & Alfonso Morales-Front, Ph.D.

  
  

N

• Nagle, Charles (PhD – 2014):
  A longitudinal study on the role of internal and external factors in the development of L2 Spanish phonology
  Mentors: Cristina Sanz & Alfonso Morales Front

P

• Pérez-Casas, Marisol (PhD – 2008):
  Codeswitching and Identity among Island Puerto Rican Bilinguals
  Mentor: Thomas J. Walsh

R

• Romero, Reynaldo (PhD – 2008):
  Structural Consequences of Language Shift: Judeo-Spanish in Istanbul
  Mentor: Dr. Thomas Walsh


• Rosa, Elena M. (PhD – 1999):
  A Cognitive Approach to Task-Based Research: Explicitness, Awareness, and L2 Development
  Mentor: Ron Leow

S

• Socarras, Gilda (PhD – 2003):
  Topics on the Acquisition of Determiner Phrases: Spanish as a First Language
  Mentor: Donna Lardiere


• Stafford, Catherine A. (PhD – 2005):
  Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Age: A Computer-based Study in L3 Processing
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

T

• Torres, Julio (PhD – 2013) :
  Heritage and Second Language Learners of Spanish: The Roles of Task Complexity and Inhibitory Control.
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

V

• Vallejos, Cristi (PhD – 2020) :
  Second Language Writing Fluency: The Effects of First Language Fluency, Working Memory, and L2 Proficiency on Pauses
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz.

W

• Watson, Mark (PhD – 2006):
  Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish: Changes in the Lexicon and Language Attitudes due to Socio-Political Reforms

  Mentor: Thomas Walsh

  
  

Y

• Yanguas, Iñigo (PhD – 2007):
  Hispanic Heritage Language Learners: A Longitudinal Investigation of Their Academic Motivation
  Mentor: Cristina Sanz

Z

• Zampini, Mary L. (PhD – 1993):
  Spanish and English Voiced Stop Phonemes and Spirantization: A Study in Second Languge Acquisition
  Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


• Zárate-Sández, German (PhD – 2015)
  Perception and Production of Intonation Among English-Spanish Bilingual Speakers at Different Proficiency Levels
  Mentors: Cristina Sanz & Alfonso Morales Front