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Tania Leal

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Assistant Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP

Spanish and Portuguese
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$42.3K / $84.7K Funding
30+ Publications
7+ Courses

Research Area

linguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism, syntax, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language processing, language learning, cognitive science, discourse analysis

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    The power paradox in bilingualism

    2024
    bilingualism, language processing, cognitive control, linguistic influence, cultural identity

    Research Methods in Generative Second Language Acquisition

    2024
    second language acquisition, generative linguistics, research methods, linguistic theory, language learning

    The power paradox in bilingualism: Weighing what we gain and what we lose by espousing and eschewing hypotheses.

    2024
    bilingualism, language acquisition, cognitive control, linguistic identity, psycholinguistics

    Resilience and vulnerability of discourse-conditioned word order in heritage Spanish

    2023
    language, linguistics, heritage, resilience, vulnerability

    L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus

    2022
    linguistics, language processing, spanish language, cognitive science, information science

    Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, edited by Leigh Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E. M. Allen

    2022
    bilingualism, production, comprehension, children

    Crosslinguistic Influence from Catalan and yucatec maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus

    2022
    language influence, psycholinguistics, language processing, focus marking, language judgments

    Feature Matching Does Not Equal Convergence: Acquisition of L2 French Accusative Pronouns by L1 Spanish Speakers

    2021
    second language acquisition, pronoun acquisition, bilingualism, linguistic transfer, language learning

    Case assignment in Spanish nominalizations

    2021
    linguistics, language acquisition, morphology, syntax, computational linguistics

    Processing subject focus across two Spanish varieties

    2020
    linguistics, language variation, syntax, psycholinguistics

    • Spanish Phonetics

    • Hispanic Linguistics

    • Theory of Spanish Morphosyntax

    • Spanish Syntax II

    • Introduction to the Linguistic Analysis of Spanish

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