OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Symposium

March 21 - March 22, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hagerty Hall and Ohio Union

Date Range
2025-03-21 09:00:00 2025-03-22 17:00:00 OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Symposium OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language.ScheduleFriday, March 21, 20258:30-8:45 Opening Remarks by Dr. John Grinstead (HH 180)9:00-11:00 - Pedagogy (HH 206)Allen R. Woodall III, Computational Approaches to Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 SpanishLauren Miranda, Building Understanding through Visibility: Centering Afro-Latinidad in High School Spanish as a Heritage Language ClassesEmma Clute, Natàlia Server Benetó, La traducción de canciones como herramienta de enseñar el español coloquialMarco Adrián Pevia, The Open Pedagogy Cycle: Open Educational Resources By and For Students9:30-11:00 - Syntax & Semantics (HH 255)Ivo da Costa do Rosário, Estudo funcional-construcionista de conectores não canônicos do portuguêsLaura Stigliano, Marisol Murujosa, Matías Verdecchia, The (un)acceptability of subject islands in Spanish: unaccusative vs. unergative verbsCarlos Martínez-García, Indefinite (Null) Objects: On Comer vs. Comer algo11:15-12:15 - Shedding light on Voices from the margins: The making of a sociolinguistic documentary; Ana Maria Carvalho (OU Senate Chamber)1:15-3:15 - Methods in Hispanic and Lusophone Corpus Linguistics; Dr. Mark Hoff and Dr. Kendra Dickinson (OU Senate Chamber)3:30-5:00 - Language Acquisition (HH 206)Miguel Angel Ramirez Sarmiento, Lexical Typicality Effects on Visual Word Recognition in SpanishPedro Antonio Ortiz-Ramírez, John Grinstead, Some Means All Until Mutual Exclusivity Says It Doesn’tBecca Mason-Vergote, John Grinstead, The Interface of Formal Features and Affect in L2 AcquisitionSyntax & Semantics (HH 251)Diego Ruiz-Tagle Muñoz, Josmary Medina Heredia, Para yo poder vs Para que yo pueda in Spanish: A Corpus Analysis of the VariationScott Schwenter and students, A gente também é objeto: Acceptability and Syntactic Function in Brazilian PortuguesePaulo Ângelo de Araújo-Adriano, Cyclic properties of vProg in Brazilian Portuguese: A phase-based approachSaturday, March 22, 20259:30-11:00 - Pragmatics (HH 251)Natàlia Server Benetó, "Qué difícil es todo" "Total" como marcador de afiliación en el español hablado actual de España y MéxicoMariangela Rios de Oliveira, A Clase dos Marcadores Pragmáticos: Usos de “SEI LÁ” no Português ContêmporaneoAlejandro Anaya Ramírez, Significado social de los marcadores innovadores de cita en el habla de personas trans y jotas de MéxicoPhonetics & Phonology (HH 255)Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, Variable Phonological Phenomena in Speech Perception: regressive voicing assimilation and the perception of voicing contrast in SpanishVitor Lacerda Siqueira, Nasalization as Sociophonetic Variation: Identity Construction in Brazilian PortugueseShane Taylor, Acting Gay: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Sexuality in Spanish Media11:15-12:15 - Labovian lessons: rhotics and rabbits; Mary E. Beaton (HH 180)1:15-2:45 - Língua portuguesa em perspectiva funcional-construcional; Dr. Ivo da Costa do Rosário and Dr. Mariangela Rios de Oliveira (HH 159)2:15-4:15 - Crosslinguistic Variation (HH 251)Jeane Nunes da Penha; Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, Construções de representação em Português e Espanhol: fazer-se de bobo e hacerse el boboRavena Beatriz de Sousa Teixeira, Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, Construções de passividade no Português e Espanhol: predicadores com verbos (semi-)suporteMax Jensen, Esteban Benalcázar Cepeda, Anahís Samamé-Rispa, Preterit vs. Present Perfect in the Andes: A Variationist Analysis of Perfective in Bolivia, Ecuador and PeruAnahís Samamé-Rispa & J. Adolfo Hermosillo, A Comparative Socio-semantic Analysis of -ísimx in Mexican and Peruvian SpanishSociolinguistics and Language Contact (HH 255)Kathryn Galyon, A Cusco School as a Community of PracticeMiguel Germán Román, Migration and the Indexical Field: Crosslinguistic Variation of Dekasegi in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese Online DiscourseAndraya Yearwood, “Samba’o na cara da sociedade”: A Quare Linguistic Account of Brazilian PortugueseStéphane Goyette, Papiamentu « duna » “to give”: Gallo-Romance or not?4:30-5:30 - Me deu um puta de um susto: Taboos in language variation; Chad Howe (HH 180)Keynote SpeakersDr. Mary E. BeatonDr. Mary E. Beaton is a linguist who graduated from our department in 2015. She researches the interactions between social categories and phonetics. Her work focuses mainly on Spanish in the United States, including Puerto Rico. She is currently studying the Spanish spoken by Puerto Rican communities in Lorain, Ohio. She teaches courses at Denison across the Spanish curriculum from beginning language to advanced courses focusing on linguistic analysis. Dr. Ana María CarvalhoDr. Ana María Carvalho focuses on Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics, and specifically on language contact, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics. Some of her most important works analyze the contact between Spanish and Portuguese in the borders between Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina and Uruguay. At OSUChiLL she will be presenting her documentary “Vozes das margens” which portrays speakers of Portuguese in the northern part of Uruguay. Dr. Chad HoweDr. Chad Howe graduated from Ohio State in 2006. His research focuses on language variation and change in Romance Languages. Essentially, he investigates the causes for structural changes in language or how language evolves. Additionally, he researches topics related to the language contact between Spanish and Quechua in South America. Hagerty Hall and Ohio Union America/New_York public

OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language.

Schedule

Friday, March 21, 2025

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks by Dr. John Grinstead (HH 180)

9:00-11:00 - Pedagogy (HH 206)

  • Allen R. Woodall III, Computational Approaches to Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Spanish
  • Lauren Miranda, Building Understanding through Visibility: Centering Afro-Latinidad in High School Spanish as a Heritage Language Classes
  • Emma Clute, Natàlia Server Benetó, La traducción de canciones como herramienta de enseñar el español coloquial
  • Marco Adrián Pevia, The Open Pedagogy Cycle: Open Educational Resources By and For Students

9:30-11:00 - Syntax & Semantics (HH 255)

  • Ivo da Costa do Rosário, Estudo funcional-construcionista de conectores não canônicos do português
  • Laura Stigliano, Marisol Murujosa, Matías Verdecchia, The (un)acceptability of subject islands in Spanish: unaccusative vs. unergative verbs
  • Carlos Martínez-García, Indefinite (Null) Objects: On Comer vs. Comer algo

11:15-12:15 - Shedding light on Voices from the margins: The making of a sociolinguistic documentary; Ana Maria Carvalho (OU Senate Chamber)

1:15-3:15 - Methods in Hispanic and Lusophone Corpus Linguistics; Dr. Mark Hoff and Dr. Kendra Dickinson (OU Senate Chamber)

3:30-5:00 - Language Acquisition (HH 206)

  • Miguel Angel Ramirez Sarmiento, Lexical Typicality Effects on Visual Word Recognition in Spanish
  • Pedro Antonio Ortiz-Ramírez, John Grinstead, Some Means All Until Mutual Exclusivity Says It Doesn’t
  • Becca Mason-Vergote, John Grinstead, The Interface of Formal Features and Affect in L2 Acquisition

Syntax & Semantics (HH 251)

  • Diego Ruiz-Tagle Muñoz, Josmary Medina Heredia, Para yo poder vs Para que yo pueda in Spanish: A Corpus Analysis of the Variation
  • Scott Schwenter and students, A gente também é objeto: Acceptability and Syntactic Function in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Paulo Ângelo de Araújo-Adriano, Cyclic properties of vProg in Brazilian Portuguese: A phase-based approach

Saturday, March 22, 2025

9:30-11:00 - Pragmatics (HH 251)

  • Natàlia Server Benetó, "Qué difícil es todo" "Total" como marcador de afiliación en el español hablado actual de España y México
  • Mariangela Rios de Oliveira, A Clase dos Marcadores Pragmáticos: Usos de “SEI LÁ” no Português Contêmporaneo
  • Alejandro Anaya Ramírez, Significado social de los marcadores innovadores de cita en el habla de personas trans y jotas de México

Phonetics & Phonology (HH 255)

  • Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, Variable Phonological Phenomena in Speech Perception: regressive voicing assimilation and the perception of voicing contrast in Spanish
  • Vitor Lacerda Siqueira, Nasalization as Sociophonetic Variation: Identity Construction in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Shane Taylor, Acting Gay: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Sexuality in Spanish Media

11:15-12:15 - Labovian lessons: rhotics and rabbits; Mary E. Beaton (HH 180)

1:15-2:45 - Língua portuguesa em perspectiva funcional-construcional; Dr. Ivo da Costa do Rosário and Dr. Mariangela Rios de Oliveira (HH 159)

2:15-4:15 - Crosslinguistic Variation (HH 251)

  • Jeane Nunes da Penha; Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, Construções de representação em Português e Espanhol: fazer-se de bobo e hacerse el bobo
  • Ravena Beatriz de Sousa Teixeira, Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, Construções de passividade no Português e Espanhol: predicadores com verbos (semi-)suporte
  • Max Jensen, Esteban Benalcázar Cepeda, Anahís Samamé-Rispa, Preterit vs. Present Perfect in the Andes: A Variationist Analysis of Perfective in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru
  • Anahís Samamé-Rispa & J. Adolfo Hermosillo, A Comparative Socio-semantic Analysis of -ísimx in Mexican and Peruvian Spanish

Sociolinguistics and Language Contact (HH 255)

  • Kathryn Galyon, A Cusco School as a Community of Practice
  • Miguel Germán Román, Migration and the Indexical Field: Crosslinguistic Variation of Dekasegi in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese Online Discourse
  • Andraya Yearwood, “Samba’o na cara da sociedade”: A Quare Linguistic Account of Brazilian Portuguese
  • Stéphane Goyette, Papiamentu « duna » “to give”: Gallo-Romance or not?

4:30-5:30 - Me deu um puta de um susto: Taboos in language variation; Chad Howe (HH 180)

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Mary E. Beaton

Dr. Mary E. Beaton is a linguist who graduated from our department in 2015. She researches the interactions between social categories and phonetics. Her work focuses mainly on Spanish in the United States, including Puerto Rico. She is currently studying the Spanish spoken by Puerto Rican communities in Lorain, Ohio. She teaches courses at Denison across the Spanish curriculum from beginning language to advanced courses focusing on linguistic analysis.

 

Dr. Ana María Carvalho

Dr. Ana María Carvalho focuses on Portuguese and Spanish Linguistics, and specifically on language contact, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics. Some of her most important works analyze the contact between Spanish and Portuguese in the borders between Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina and Uruguay. At OSUChiLL she will be presenting her documentary “Vozes das margens” which portrays speakers of Portuguese in the northern part of Uruguay.

 

Dr. Chad Howe

Dr. Chad Howe graduated from Ohio State in 2006. His research focuses on language variation and change in Romance Languages. Essentially, he investigates the causes for structural changes in language or how language evolves. Additionally, he researches topics related to the language contact between Spanish and Quechua in South America.