Dr. Becky Gonzalez is the director of the Multilingual Syntax Lab. She is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics. She is primarily interested in theoretical and cognitive aspects of multilingualism and how multilingual structures are represented in the mental architecture. Her research has examined several types of adult multilinguals, including L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers, L1 Spanish/ L2 English speakers, Heritage Spanish speakers, and L3 Brazilian Portuguese speakers. 

Wenqi is a third-year PhD student in Linguistics and has her MA in Linguistics at UI as well. Her primary research interests are in experimental phonetics and phonology, with an emphasis on (L1 and bilingual) speech processing. She is currently working on the production and perception of tones in Mandarin dialects. 

M.A., Linguistics (2021)

B.A., Spanish, Computer Science; B.S., Biochemistry (2021)

M.A., Linguistics (2021) 

M.A., Spanish Linguistics (2021)

B.A., Linguistics, Spanish (2023)