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Eliot Westdorp, doctoral student in Romance Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages, was recently interviewed by the Galician newspaper Faro de Vigo. He spoke to them about his dissertation research on the Galician language as it is spoken on the Illa de Arousa.
Congratulations to Dr. María González-Ferrer, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "La reduplicación del clítico dativo en español: Adquisición en la L2 y variación" [Dative clitic doubling in Spanish: L2 Acquisition and variation] on May 21, 2025. ¡Enhorabuena, María!  We wish Dr. González-Ferrer the best in her new position as Lecturer of Spanish at Brown University starting in fall 2025.
Eliot Westdorp has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be critical in funding Eliot's dissertation research project examining changes related to the loss of seseo and language contact between Spanish and Galician in Galicia. ¡Enhorabuena, Eliot!
Numerous current and former UGA ROML linguists recently presented their research at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, hosted in Omaha, Nebraska October 17-19, 2024.  Congratulations to all of them! Sarah Hubbel (UGA PhD 2024, now University of North Georgia): Predicate constituent order variation in the Spanish-Quechua contact situation of Cusco, Peru Caitlin Samples (UGA/Stanford University): Four years later: is gender-inclusive…
The article "What formal approaches to syntactic interfaces can tell us about the syntax of preverbal and prenominal constituents in Galician" recently appeared in New Developments in Galician Linguistics, a special issue of the journal Languages guest edited by Dr. Xosé Luís Regueira and Dr. Elisa Fernández Rei, both of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).  This article was co-authored by Dr. Timothy Gupton and UGA…
My research interests lie in phonetics and phonology.  More specifically, my research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability.  Disentangling surface forms (the sounds we produce) from abstract forms (how they are represented in the brain) has always been a primary goal for phonological theories, but finding appropriate methods to test these questions is challenging.  I use a…
María González-Ferrer has been selected as a recipient of a 2024 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be a huge help in funding María's dissertation research project on clitic doubling in the Spanish of Spain, Argentina, and Mexico. ¡Enhorabuena, María!
Congratulations to Sarah Hubbel, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Predicate constituent order variation in the Andes: A comparative analysis of Andean Spanish and bilingual Cusco Quechua" on March 27, 2024.
The article "Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese" recently appeared in the First View portion of the Journal of Linguistics. This article was co-published by UGA Department of Linguistics alumnus Dr. Douglas Merchant (PhD, 2019) and Dr. Timothy Gupton. This project started before the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the first manuscript resulting from this collaboration. Congratulations to them! 
Congratulations to Ningxian Li, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled "V(P) copying in Spanish and Chinese" on January 26, 2024. In his dissertation, Li compares the syntax, semantics, and information structure of verb-fronting and predicate-fronting constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The committee was impressed by the coherence and organization of his argumentation. ¡Felicitaciones, Dr. Li!   Sarah…

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