UIC Talks in Linguistics Schedule

Introduction

All Talks in Linguistics are held at 3:00 p.m. in a hybrid format (both at UH 1750 and on Zoom), unless stated otherwise. Please contact Dr. Luis López or Ana Rodríguez Gallego to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.

Talks in Linguistics

Talks for 2026-2027

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and abstract
September 11	2pm	Welcome: Meet and Greet!	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty!
September 25	3:00 p.m.	Marta Rivera		TBA
October 9	3:00 p.m.	Liliana Sánchez	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	TBA
November 13	3 p.m.	Antje Quick	Max Kade Scholar	Look at the Ampel: A Corpus-Based Approach to Bilingual Code-Switching
December 4	3:00 p.m.	Nate Cook	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	TBA

Talks for 2025-2026

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and abstract
April 10	3:00 p.m.	Ana Rodríguez Gallego, Nahia Frias-Bilbao, Luis Aguilar Saucedo, and Nate Cook	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics
April 24	3:00 p.m.	Dr. Matias Fernandez-Duque	Northwestern

Talks for 2024-2025

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and abstract
September 6	3:00 p.m.	Welcome: Meet and Greet!	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty!
October 4	3:00 p.m.	Carlos Martínez García	Universidad Complutense de Madrid	Indefinite null subjects and indefinite null objects in Spanish
September 20	3:00 p.m.	Concepción Soto	Northwestern University	Unveiling bilingual variability during spoken word recognition: An eye-tracking exploration of within-L1 competition dynamics across the bilingual continuum
October 24 and 25	8:00 am - 6:00 pm, UIC Student Center East	UIC Bilingualism Forum 2024	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Find more information on the BilForum website!
November 15	3:00 p.m.	Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli	University at Buffalo, SUNY	The linguistic and cognitive predictors of speakers' choice of nominative reduced referring device in Santiago Cabo-Verdean Creole
November 22	3:00 p.m.	Luis López	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	The lie, the liar and the lied-to
February 7	4:00 p.m.	Nate Cook & Isabella Depue	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Dissertation Proposal and State of the Art
February 21	3:00 p.m.	Lilian Gorman	University of Arizona in Tuscon
March 7	3:00 p.m.	Kara Morgan-Short	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics
April 4	3:00 p.m.	Angela Betancourt-Ciprián	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics
April 18	3:00 p.m.	Claudia Fernández	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics
May 2	3:00 p.m.	Guido Mensching	Universität Göttingen

Talks for 2023-2024

Date	Time	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and abstract
September 1st	4:00 p.m.	Welcome!	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty!
September 15th	4:00 p.m.	Alexis Berles	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Lab	Individual differences in adult Romance-like language learning and working memory in implicit and explicit contexts
	4:30 p.m.	Ana Rodríguez Gallego	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Lab	The role of working memory in adult L2 processing: An ERP study
September 29th	4:00 p.m.	David Miller	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Psychology of Multilingualism Lab	Aversive language processing in bilingualism: The role of System 1 and 2
October 27th	11:00 a.m.	Fernando Martín-Villena	Universitat Pompeu Fabra	L1 morphosyntactic attrition in bilinguals: triangulating evidence from production, interpretation, and processing data
November 10th	4:00 p.m.	Michał B. Paradowski	Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw	Peer interactions in study-abroad SLA: Insights from complete learner networks
November 17th	10:00 a.m.	Kate Bellamy	Leiden University	Dialectology meets heritage language research: Identifying appropriate baselines among P'urhepecha speakers
January 19th	4:00 p.m.	Jefferson Imbaquingo	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, The Bilingualism Research Lab	Evidentiality, conjecture and grammatical expression in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish
February 2nd	4:00 p.m.	Jason Cruz	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Multilingual Phonology Lab	L3+ Attrition: Proof of Concept & Current Trends
		Marty Buck	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Spanish Dialect Contact in the United States: Sociolinguistic Outcomes and Future Directions
February 16th	4:00 p.m.	Jennifer Cabrelli, Jason Cruz, &; John Escalante Martínez	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Multilingual Phonology Lab	The relationship between perception and production in L2 English phonotactic acquisition and resultant effects in L1 Brazilian Portuguese
March 1st	2:00 p.m.	Gyu-Ho Shin	UIC, Linguistics	‘Good-Enough’ processing and heritage speakers: A case of Korean suffixal passive and morphological causative constructions
March 15th	4:00 p.m.	Tania Ionin	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Universal Quantification, Distributivity, and Collectivity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals
March 29th	2:00 p.m.	Adam Cleveland &; Liliana Sánchez	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, The Bilingualism Research Lab	Universal Quantification, Distributivity, and Collectivity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals
April 12th	3:00 p.m.	Silvia Perez-Cortes	Rutgers University, Camden	Close and personal: the importance of examining intra-speaker variability and production data in heritage language research.

Talks for 2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract
September 2nd	Meet and greet		Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty!
September 16th	Dr. Eloi Puig Mayenco	King's College London	Modelling L3 development patterns: Japanese-English bilinguals acquiring Spanish
September 30th	Dr. Ana Pérez-Leroux	University of Toronto	La lobo malo: A critical listening of La caperucita roja
October 14th	UIC Bilingualism Forum		No TiL
October 28th	UIC Bilingualism Forum		No TiL
November 11th	Alexis Berles	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Individual differences in cognitive control and adult language learning
	Nate Cook	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Exploring the foreign language effect in bilinguals: Illusory truth effect of true statements
November 25th	Thanksgiving Break		No TiL
February 3rd	Dr. Jorge Valdés Kroff	University of Florida	Adaptive Prediction in Code-switching as a window into language regulation
February 17th	Lidia Aguilera	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Exploring Identity and Investment using Qualitative Research Software
March 3rd	Dr. Tania Leal	University of Arizona	Canceled
March 17th	Dr. Silvia Gumiel Molina,Dr. María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, & Dr. Norberto Moreno Quibén	University of Alcalá	Canceled
April 7th	John A. Escalante Martínez	UIC, Hispanic Linguistics	Perception of lexical stress by Spanish heritage speakers
April 20th	Dr. Nicole Wicha	University of Texas at San Antonio	Electrophysiological signatures of cognitive development and bilingualism in processing simple arithmetic This talk is sponsored by the LIN; see date and location in the link.

Talks for 2021-2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract
September 3rd	TiL meet-and-greet		Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty!
October 1st	Tribute to Dr. John Franco, University of Deusto
October 15th	Dr. Vincent DeLuca	University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway
October 29th	Ana Hernandez	University of Illinois at Chicago
November 12th	Dr. Brad Hoot	DePaul University
January 21st	Alexis Berles	University of Illinois at Chicago
February 4th	Marina Ridchenko	University of Illinois at Chicago
March 4th	Dr. José Sequeros-Valle	University of Nebraska at Omaha
March 11th	Dr. Jorge Valdes Kroff	University of Florida
March 18th	Dr. Rajiv Rao	University of Wisconsin
April 1st	Dr. Betty Birner	Northern Illinois University
April 15th	Dr. Alison Gabriele	University of Kansas

Talks for 2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract
September 4th	TiL meet-and-greet		Get to know you fellow linguistic students and faculty!
September 18th	Dr. Kara Federmeier	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Getting a read on language and the brain
October 16th	Dr. Holger Hopp	Technical University of Braunschweig	How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence? NOTE: held at 12pm CST to account for time zone differences
October 30th	Dr. Kara Morgan-Short, David Abugaber, Irene Finestrat, & Alicia Luque	University of Illinois at Chicago & University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway	NOTE: held at 12pm CST to account for time zone differences
November 13th	Dr. Luis López, Irati de Nicolás, & Jose Sequeros-Valle	University of Illinois at Chicago	Make your mouth agua: idioms and the integrated hypothesis
January 22nd	Irene Finestrat	University of Illinois at Chicago	Language learning in context: The Role of Native-Language Skills in the At-Home and Study Abroad Settings
February 5th	Annette D'Onofrio	Northwestern University
February 19th	Mike Putnam	Penn State University
March 5th	M. Parafita Cuoto	Leiden University
March 19th	Liliana Sánchez, Megan Marshall, Gabriel Martínez, & Marina Sokolova	University of Illinois at Chicago
April 2nd	Antje Muntendam	Florida State University
April 16th	Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg	Northern Illinois University

Talks for 2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract
September 6th	TiL meet-and-greet
September 13th	"Planning your semester" workshop
September 27th	Concepción Company Company	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Lengua española y regalos culturales de América al mundo. Un acercamiento histórico
October 11th	David Abugaber	University of Illinois at Chicago	¿Es complicado o está complicado?: Empirically testing our intuitions about the use of Spanish ser vs. estar
October 25th	Boaz Keysar	University of Chicago	Living in a native tongue
November 8th	José Sequeiros + David Abugaber Also, POTLUCK!	University of Illinois at Chicago	It's just words!: A lexical approach to discourse (Jose Sequeiros) Thinking (about grammar), fast and slow: Exploring per-learner variability via analysis methods from cognitive psychology (David Abugaber)
January 24th	Tom Roeper	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Minimal Interfaces and Cross-modular Notation: How do different Grammars and different modules achieve compatibility ALSO: Special professional development Q&A session on Sat., Jan. 25, 10am-12pm in UH 1750
January 31st	Silvina Montrul	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	On lexical assignment and gender agreement in Spanish: A study of novel nouns
February 14th	Guilherme Duarte	Ball State University	Lexical statistics and the grammar
March 6th	Stacy Ko	Marquette University	¡Hola María! The interplay of Spanish and English and how to determine difference versus disorder in bilingual individuals Full video available here
March 13th	Annette D'Onofrio	Northwestern University	Sound change reversal in context: Production and perception of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago neighborhood
April 24th	Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg	Northern Illinois University	TBD

Talks for 2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract
September 14th	TiL meet-and-greet
September 28th	Student Presentations - David Abugaber, Jose Sequeros	University of Illinois at Chicago	Clitic-doubled Left Dislocation in Heritage Spanish: Judgment vs. Speeded Production Data (Jose) and Frequency and Semantic Prototypicality in an L2 Spanish Dative Construction: A Corpus Study (David)
November 16th	Adriana Weisleder	Northwestern University	Richer language experience leads to faster understanding: Language input and processing efficiency in Spanish-learning children
November 19th (Monday, 4pm in University Hall 1501)	Vita Kogan	University of Barcelona	Individual Differences in L1 Perception & their Effects on Discrimination of Unfamiliar Nonnative Vowel Contrasts
February 8th - note time/location change to 1pm in University Hall 1750	Mike Iverson	University of Indiana	Rethinking some issues in L1 attrition: A case study of L1 Spanish in contact with Brazilian Portuguese
March 1st	Sung Park-Johnson and Carolina Barrera-Tobon	DePaul University	English hegemony in a Spanish Immersion preschool: a case study at Puerta Abierta
March 15th	Erik Zyman	University of Chicago	Antilocality at the Phase Edge
April 5th	Erika Erdely	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)	Una nueva mirada a la semántica a los verbos ser y estar con perspectiva dialectal / New insights on the semantics of Spanish copulas ser and estar from a dialectal perspective
April 12th	Student Presentations	University of Illinois at Chicago	TBD
April 26th	Kara Federmeier	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	TBD

Talks for 2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract	Speaker Liaison
September 15th, 2017	TiL meet-and-greet Liliana Sanchez	Rutgers University	Re-thinking research methodologies in multicultural contexts: collaborating with indigenous communities in Peru
October 6th, 2017 (at UH 1501)	Kara Morgan Short	University of Illinois at Chicago	It’s electric! Connections between language processing and second language acquisition
October 20th	Matt Walenski	Northwestern University	How (and when) does sentence comprehension go wrong in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia?
November 3rd	Gabriel Martinez Vera	University of Connecticut	On phases and prosodic reflexes in Spanish recomplementation
November 17th	Briana Villegas	University of Illinois at Chicago	The role of training condition and individual differences on the development of a complex form: An L2 study of the Spanish subjunctive
December 1st at 3pm	Anna Maria Escobar	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	Contact Scenarios and Functional Transfer
January 26th, 2018	Matt Walenski	Northwestern University	How (and when) does sentence comprehension go wrong in agrammatic primary progressive aphasia?
March 2nd	Daniel Olson	Purdue University	Flexibility in bilingual lexical access
March 9th	Kim Potowski	University of Illinois at Chicago	No child left monolingual
March 23rd	Emma Marsden	The University of York	Estimating the magnitude of sensitivity to morphosyntax and first language influence during self
April 13th	David Abugaber	University of Illinois at Chicago	ANOVA R workshop
April 20th	Denise Cloonan	Northeastern Illinois University	Using eye dialect as background knowledge for dialectal variation in Spanish
May 4th	End of Year Event

Talks for 2016-2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Abstract	Speaker Liaison
September 2, 2016	TiL Meet & Greet Jose Sequeros-Valle	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	Clitic-doubled Left Dislocation in L2 Spanish: Speeded Production Data
September 16, 2016	Christine Shea	University of Iowa	Variability and lexical activation in L2 processing	Sara
September 30, 2016	James Bartolotti	Northwestern University	Previous Language Experience Shapes Novel Language Learning	Jose
October 14, 2016	Laura Batterink	Northwestern University	Contributions to language from implicit and explicit memory	Irene
October 28, 2016	David Abugaber	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	Face Recognition and Bilingual Lexical Access: Viewing familiarized faces primes performance in a Spanish-English language-selection task	Angela
November 11, 2016	Andrew Lynch	University of Miami	Placing accent marks in the Spanish heritage language classroom	Zenaido
December 1, 2016 5-6pm LICO lab	Kathy Escamilla	University of Colorado	TBA
January 20, 2017	Vicki Carstens	Southern Illinois University Carbondale	ONLY and antisymmetry in Zulu and Xhosa	Dani
Februrary 3, 2017	Jennifer Cole	Northwestern University	Details (sometimes) matter for the mental representation of intonation	Carrie
February 17, 2017	Giovanni Bennardo	Northern Illinois University	Linguistic Strategies and Culture in Mind
March 3, 2017	Janet van Hell	Penn State University	Code-switching in bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological studies	Alicia
March 31, 2017	Lewis Gebhardt	Northeastern Illinois University	Crow is an 85% DP Language (and a question about verbal morphology)
April 7, 2017	Carrie Pichan	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	Phonological Transfer in L3 Initial Stages Italian and Portuguese	Alicia
April 21, 2017	Tue Trinh	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	In defense of structural alternatives	Jon & Irati
April 27, 2017	Manuel Díaz-Campos	Indiana University	Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and semantics

Talks for 2015-2016

Date, Time, and Location*	Speaker	Title / Abstract
Sept 4, 2015	Meet and Greet
Sept 18, 2015	HLS Presentations
October 2, 2015	Isabelle Darcy (Indiana University)	Executive functions predict individual differences in second language phonological processing
October 16, 2015 *UH 1501	Silvina Montrul (UIUC)	Structural Differences and Similarities in Three Heritage Languages in the USA
November 13, 2015	Patxi Laskurain (Illinois State University)	The Linguistic Landscape of Chicago’s La Villita
November 18, 2015 *Wednesday, 10-11 am.	Eve Higby	Native language adaptation to novel verb argument structures by Spanish- English bilinguals: An electrophysiological investigation
December 3, 2015 *LICO sponsored talk	Naomi Shin (University of New Mexico)	Does English impact Spanish in the U.S.? Evidence from bilingual children’s patterns of morphosyntactic variation
January 22, 2016	Rhonda McClain (Northwestern)	Neural mechanisms of second language speech production and cognitive control as revealed by event-related potentials
Februrary 5, 2016	Emily Cibelli	Targeting the acquisition of L2 production categories with explicit articulatory instruction
February 19, 2016	Daniel Vergara	Licensing N-words Across Domains
March 4, 2016 *UH 1501	Heidy Harley (University of Arizona)	A syntactic alternative to deficiency approaches to the manner-alternation parameter
March 18, 2016	David Durian (College of Dupage)	Revisiting the Development of the Northern Cities Shift in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chicago: Another Look at Pederson's PEMC Data, DARE, and LANCS
April 8, 2016	Szymon Zuberek (UIC)	The Effectiveness of Pronunciation Training Software in ESL Fluency Development
April 22, 2016	Jill Jegerski (UIUC)	Bilingual sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in heritage speakers of Spanish

Talks for 2014-2015

Date	Speaker	Title / Abstract
September 5th	Linguistics meet and greet
September 19th	Barbara Di Eugenio (UIC)	Computational Models of Multimodal Referring Expressions in the ELDERLY-AT-HOME Corpus
October 21st	Alessandro Benati (U of Greenwich)	The effects of re-exposure to instruction and the use of discourse-level interpretation tasks on processing instruction and the Japanese passive
November 14th	Jeanne Heil (UIC)	Great Aspect-actions: Morphological encoding in Second Language Acquisition
January 16th	Bernard Issa (UIC)	Investigating the role of attention in second language grammar learning: An eye-tracking study
January 30th	Matt Goldrick (Northwestern)	Unifying the continuous and the discrete in theories of bilingualism: Insights from Gradient Symbolic Computation
February 6th	Rosana Ariolfo (Universidad de Génova)	La lengua española en el contexto escolar genovés: Niños y jóvenes de origen latinoamericano entre integración y discriminación
February 27th	Lillian Gorman (UIC)	Ethnolinguistic Contact Zones: Identity and Language Use within Mixed Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families in northern New Mexico
March 3rd	Tammer Castro (University of Tromso, Norway)	Bilingualism or bidialectalism? Empty Categories in Brazilian and European Portuguese
March 13th	Jonathan MacDonald (UIUC)	Spanish aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: evidence from bare nouns and leísta PCC repairs
April 3rd	Scott Schwenter (Ohio State University)	Priming and (Non-)Obsolescence in Morphosyntactic Variation
April 10th	Janet Fuller (Southern Illinois University)	Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscapes of Chicago and Berlin

Talks for 2013-2014

Date, Time, and Location*	Speaker	Title / Abstract
September 5th	Linguistics meet and greet
September 19th	Barbara Di Eugenio (UIC)	Computational Models of Multimodal Referring Expressions in the ELDERLY-AT-HOME Corpus
October 21st	Alessandro Benati (U of Greenwich)	The effects of re-exposure to instruction and the use of discourse-level interpretation tasks on processing instruction and the Japanese passive
November 14th	Jeanne Heil (UIC)	Great Aspect-actions: Morphological encoding in Second Language Acquisition
January 16th	Bernard Issa (UIC)	Investigating the role of attention in second language grammar learning: An eye-tracking study
January 30th	Matt Goldrick (Northwestern)	Unifying the continuous and the discrete in theories of bilingualism: Insights from Gradient Symbolic Computation
February 6th	Rosana Ariolfo (Universidad de Génova)	La lengua española en el contexto escolar genovés: Niños y jóvenes de origen latinoamericano entre integración y discriminación
February 27th	Lillian Gorman (UIC)	Ethnolinguistic Contact Zones: Identity and Language Use within Mixed Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families in northern New Mexico
March 3rd	Tammer Castro (University of Tromso, Norway)	Bilingualism or bidialectalism? Empty Categories in Brazilian and European Portuguese
March 13th	Jonathan MacDonald (UIUC)	Spanish aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: evidence from bare nouns and leísta PCC repairs
April 3rd	Scott Schwenter (Ohio State University)	Priming and (Non-)Obsolescence in Morphosyntactic Variation
April 10th	Janet Fuller (Southern Illinois University)	Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscapes of Chicago and Berlin
April 24th	TBA