Becky Gonzalez will be presenting 'Adverbial adventures: adult heritage Spanish speakers' placement of adverbs by semantic class,' a collaborative project with Geoff Collins (an extension of this thesis project!) at HLS at the University of Nebraska on October 18, 2024!
Becky Gonzalez and MA student Rachel Wagle will be presenting 'Re-considering 'verbs like gustar' - insights from linguistic theory and empirical research' at HLS at the University of Nebraska on October 17, 2024!
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting 'L2 Acquisition of word order and agreement patterns across verb types in Brazilian Portuguese' at GASLA at UIUC on May 4!
Isabella Weber has received an OUR undegraduate research fellowship to pursue research in the lab during the 2024-2025 school year! She will be working on shared syntax in Spanish-English bilinguals!
Wenqi Zeng, Kate Will, and Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "Feature Reassembly in adult SLA - a bi-directional study of Spanish and English relative pronouns" at the Boston University Conference on Language Development on November 3, 2023!
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "The Unaccusative Trap in adult SLA: evidence from Brazilian Portuguese" at the Boston University Conference on Language Development" on November 4, 2023.
Becky Gonzalez, Wenqi Zeng, and Kate Will will be presenting "Production and Comprehension of relative pronouns in L1 Spanish/L2 English" at Bilingualism Matters in Columbia, SC on October 20, 2023.
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "Word order and agreement in L2 Brazilian Portuguese" at Bilingualism Matters in Columbia, SC on October 20, 2023.
Becky Gonzalez, Wenqi Zeng, and Kate Will will be presenting "Que o quien? Examining the acquisition and use of relative pronouns in L2 Spanish" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium in Provo, UT on October 12-14, 2023.
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "Argument Structure and (in)transitivity in L2 Brazilian Portuguese" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium in Provo, UT on October 12-14, 2023.
Geoff Collins and Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "Adverb Placement in L2 Spanish: the role of semantics" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium on October 9, 2021.
Becky Gonzalez, Kate Will, and Wenqi Zeng will be presenting "Development of a Bi-directional Spanish/English SLA Study" at Language Discussion Group on Monday, September 27, 2021.
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting "The Distribution of the Middle Voice with Psych Verbs in Heritage Spanish" at the 8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language from May 13-14, 2021.
Geoff Collins will be presenting his undergraduate Honors Thesis on Wednesday, April 28th. Thesis title: Explorando los adverbios en la adquisición de español como segunda lengua: la interfaz de la sintaxis y la semántica ('Exploring adverbs in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language: the interface of syntax and semantics')
Undergraduate student Geoff Collins has been selected for the Dare to Discover Campaign for his research on the second language acquisition of adverbs. The campaign is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and showcases researchers, scholars, and creators from across the University of Iowa. Read more here! https://dare.research.uiowa.edu/collins-geoff/
Dr. Gonzalez was recently awarded the 2020 James N. Murray Award, which honors an untenured faculty member at UIowa who has demonstrated outstanding rapport with students and created an exemplary classroom atmosphere.
Read more here: https://vp.studentlife.uiowa.edu/awards/recipients/marion-l-huit-faculty-award-2/
Becky Gonzalez will be presenting “Proficiency, dominance, and stimuli mode in heritage speaker judgments of object experiencer psych verbs” at the 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language at the University of New Mexico on February 27, 2020.