Code-switching in Spanish-English bilinguals

Funders: University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Rothman Summer Fellowships in the Humanities; Language Learning

Dr de Prada Pérez’s collaborative work (with undergraduate students Nick Feroce, Andrea Hernández, and Lilian Kennedy and postgraduate students Osmer Balam, Nofiya Denbaum, and Adriana Ojeda) uses naturalistic and experimental methods to elicit codeswitching and examine attitudes towards it. Most of this work uses variationist approaches to linguistics to compare different patterns (as instantiated in the relevant variables selected as significant) in monolingual vs bilingual speech in bilingual speakers. The different linguistic structures included subject expression, vowel quality, bilingual compound verbs, gender agreement, copula choice and mood choice