About

I am a student in the University of Zaragoza's Ph.D. program in Hispanic linguistics. My interests include psycholinguistics, morphology (especially grammatical gender), multilingualism, and acquisition. I am a proud Pennsylvanian, born in beautiful Central Pennsylvania, and I spent my first two years of my undergraduate degree studying world languages education and English as a second language at the wonderful Penn State University. I transferred to the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, BC, Canada in 2020 where I earned a Bachelor of Arts, specializing in Spanish, political science, and philosophy, in June 2022.

My doctoral dissertation examines the acquisition of multimodal language in two domains of lexical motivation (iconic: ideophones, conceptual: intentionality). My master's thesis investigated the cross-linguistic gender congruency effect in English-French and French-English bilingual learners of Spanish, aiming to identify the roles of language typology and order of acquisition in third language acquisition and transfer. I have worked on research teams investigating the emergence and use of Spanish novel non-binary gender forms on social media, L3 acquistion of typologically-distinct languages, and changes in incremental sentence processing (prediction; using the visual world eye-tracking paradigm) as vocabulary size grows. I've dabbled in phonology (working with the Viby-i in Swedish), syntax (defending a notional view of syntactic imposters), and inclusive language in Spanish.

I am a native speaker of English and more-or-less fluent in Spanish, with just a touch of American Sign Language and French in my repertoire– Hebrew and Swedish, you're up next!

When I am not in class or teaching, you can probably find me crocheting, cross stitching, or editing my literary magazine.