Numerous current and former UGA ROML linguists recently presented their research at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium¹, 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 on the HLS information page.¹

¹These pages are no longer accessible.**