UGA students and faculty present at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS)

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 language still a change in progress?
• Vanessa Revheim (UGA PhD candidate), Violeta Barahona (UGA MA 2024) & Steve Vazquez (UGA MA 2024): Evidencia de la influencia translingüística en la inversión verbo-sujeto en oraciones interrogativas: un estudio piloto con hispanohablantes de herencia
• Madeline Gilbert, Assistant Professor (UGA): Partial metathesis in Sevillian Spanish
• Gorka Basterretxea Santiso (Northeastern University), María González (UGA PhD candidate), James Graham Johnson (UGA PhD Candidate) & Andrew Weston (Northeastern University): Tod@/e/xs opinan: actitudes implícitas hacia el lenguaje inclusivo en español
• Vanessa Revheim (UGA PhD Candidate) & Olivia Brooks (UGA MA 2024): Exploring the lexical aspect among heritage speakers of Brazilian Portuguese
• Jessica Tiegs, Lecturer (UGA) & Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona): Marginal phonemic contrasts yield marginal perceptual sensitivity
• Chad Howe, Professor (UGA), Bethany Bateman McDonald, Lecturer (UGA) & Sarah Hubbel: Placeholder na in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals
• Viveca Power (UGA MA 2024) L2 Learners’ Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Spanish Varieties
• Leticia Rincón Herce (UGA PhD 2020, now Creighton University ) and Madeline Critchfield (UGA MA 2017, PhD 2021, now Rockhust University) Task-Based Needs Analysis for Medical Spanish

You can find the full program and abstracts here.