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Selected Work

Cuza, A. (2025). La variación morfosintáctica del español cubano. In Manuel Díaz-Campos & Juan M. Hernández Campoy (eds.).  Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español. Wiley. https://www.amazon.com.mx/Enciclopedia-Concisa-Dialectos-Espa%C3%B1ol-Mundo/dp/1119909082

Cuza, A., Shin, N., & Sánchez, L. (2025). Genericity expression in child heritage Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. DeGruyter.  doi.org/10.1515/shll-2025-2004

Cuza, A. (2024). Phrasal verb production in child heritage speakers of English residing in Mexico: Chronological age, experience and protracted development. International Journal of Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069241284518

Seo, Y. & Cuza, A. (2024). On the production of bare nouns and case-marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English. Lingua. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103826 (recipient of the Lingua’s Editor’s Choice Award)

Solano-Escobar, L. & Cuza, A. (2024). The acquisition of the inalienable possession in L2 and Heritage Spanish. Heritage Language Journal, 21(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10022

Cuza, A., & Solano-Escobar, L. (2023). Protracted development in child heritage Spanish. Evidence from inalienable possession. Second Language Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583231202608

Gómez Alzate, E., Cuza, A., Camacho, J. & Zanelli, D. (2023). The acquisition of adverb placement in child heritage speakers of Spanish. Languages, 9.1, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010001

Solano-Escobar, L. & Cuza, A. (2023). Infinitive vs. Gerund Use and Interpretation in Heritage Spanish. Languages, 8(3), 214. https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/214

Pérez-Leroux, AT., Alvarez, Y., Barreto, M., Cuza A., Marinescu I., Yang J., Colantoni, L. (2023). The phonetic and morphosyntactic dimensions of grammatical gender in Spanish heritage language acquisition. Heritage Language Journal, 20(1), 1-37. https://brill.com/view/journals/hlj/20/1/article-p1_4.xml

Shin, N., Cuza, A.  & Sánchez, L. (2023). Structured variation, language experience, and crosslinguistic influence shape child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000694

Jiao, J. & Cuza, A (2022). Early exposure and input type in the production of Spanish accusative clitics by Chinese/Spanish bilinguals. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 7(1), 1–30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5770

Seo, Y., Dmitrieva, O., & Cuza, A. (2022). Crosslinguistic Influence in the Discrimination of Korean Stop Contrast by Heritage Speakers and Second Language learners. Languages 7(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010006

Cuza, A. & Sánchez, L. (2022). The Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Child and Adult Heritage Speakers of Spanish. In Dalila Ayoun (ed.). The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic Perspectives (pp. 71-94).  John Benjamins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

García, A., Cuza, A., Lustres, E. (2021). The production and comprehension of Spanish se in L2 and Heritage Spanish. Second Language Research. First Published May 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211016537

López-Otero, Cuza, A. & Jiao, J. (2021). Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil. Second Language Research. June 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211017603

Cuza, A., Reyes, N., Lustres, E. (2021). Copulas ser and estar production in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish. Lingua, Volume 249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102978

Cuza, A. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2021). The production of ser and estar in Catalan/Spanish bilingual children.  In Sandro Sessarego and Juan Colomina (eds.), Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond: Structure, Context and Development. Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Lustres, E., García, A., & Cuza, A. (2020). The acquisition of obligatory and variable mood selection in epistemic predicates by L2 learners and heritage speakers of Spanish. In Pascual y Cabo & Idoia Elola (eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (pp. 319-342). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jiao, J., Cuza, A. & López-Otero, J.C. (2020). The acquisition of personal a among Chinese-speaking L2 Learners of Spanish: A case for syntactic complexity. In Pascual y Cabo & Idoia Elola (eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (pp. 233-252).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

López-Otero, J.C. & Cuza, A. (2020). The distribution and use of present and past progressive forms in Spanish-English and Spanish-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals. In Luis Ortiz, Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo & Melvin González Rivera (eds.), Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives (pp. 63-89).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 

PhD students

  1. Edier Gómez Alzate, PhD student
  2. Francisco Clavijo, PhD student
  3. Santiago Castillo, PhD student
  4. Laura Solano-Escobar Escobar. Linguistics (2024)
  5. Nancy Reyes. Hispanic Linguistics (2024). Spanish Grammatical Gender: Linguistic Intuition in Spanish heritage speakers.
  6. Claudia Sadowski. Hispanic Linguistics (2021). Taking a Chance: A Narrative Inquiry of Mexican Origin Immigrants Living in the American Midwest. Co-advisor with Prof. JoAnn Phillion, College of Education.
  7. Jian Jiao. Hispanic Linguistics (2021). The acquisition of Spanish Accusative Clitics by Chinese-Spanish Bilinguals.
  8. Antonio Martín Gómez. Hispanic Linguistics (2020). Age and input effects in the acquisition of clitic climbing constructions in heritage and second language Spanish.
  9. Cézar A. Medeiros Ponti: Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics (2017). The role of explicit and implicit instruction in the L2 acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish.
  10. Lauren Miller: Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics (2016). The Acquisition of Bare Nominals by Three Populations of Spanish-English Bilingual Adults.
  11. Lucía Fernández. PhD Bilingual Education, Biliteracy (2017). Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Co-Advisor with Dr. Auxiliadora Barrios Rodríguez.

 

MA students

  1. Sebastian Henao (2026)
  2. Francisco Clavijo. Linguistics (2024)
  3. Santiago Castillo. Linguistics (2024)
  4. Edier Gómez Alzate. Linguistics (2023)
  5. Dafne Zanelli. Linguistics (2023)
  6. Anamaria Molina. Linguistics (2022) (non-thesis)
  7. Laura Solano-Escobar Escobar (2021). The acquisition of inalienable possession in L2 and heritage speakers of Spanish.
  8. Beatriz Franco (2021) (non-thesis)
  9. Aida Garcia (2018). The Acquisition of Aspectual Properties in Reflexive Psych Predicates and Physical Change of State Verb. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  10. Eduardo Lustres (2018). The Acquisition of Obligatory and Variable Subjunctive Mood Selection in Temporal and Concessive Clauses in Heritage and L2 Spanish. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University
  11. Nancy Reyes (2017). The acquisition of Ser/Estar distinctions in Spanish/English bilingual Children. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  12. Jian Jiao (2017): The acquisition of Spanish Differential Marking in Chinese-speaking L2 learners. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  13. Jorge García (2017) (non-thesis)
  14. Julio César López Otero (2016). Bilingualism effects at the syntax-semantics interface: Evidence from the Spanish Present Tense. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  15. Jorge Peña (2015) (non-thesis)
  16. Kathryn Wadas (2014) (non-thesis)
  17. Lauren Miller (2013). The acquisition of tense and aspect in heritage Spanish. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  18. Mariluz Ortiz (2013). The bilingual acquisition of DOM in child and heritage Spanish. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  19. Elizabeth Barajas (2012). The L2 acquisition of definite and bare plurals in Spanish-speaking learners of English L2. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  20. Arnold Gamboa (2012). The L2 acquisition of Spanish gender among English-speaking L2 learners. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  21. Joshua Frank (2011). The acquisition of double-que questions in heritage Spanish. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  22. Mara Barbosa (2011). Null objects in English L1/Portuguese L2 bilinguals. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.
  23. Laura Williams (2011) (non-thesis)
  24. Melinda White (2011) (non-thesis)
  25. Alejandra Vela (2011) (non-thesis)
  26. Eva Gutiérrez (2011) (non-thesis)
  27. Andy Noelle (2010) (non-thesis)
  28. Cezar Medeiros (2010). Contextual guessing and dictionary use in the L2 acquisition of vocabulary in Portuguese. Unpublished MA thesis. Purdue University.