RESEARCH INTERESTS and PUBLICATIONS
Research interests
My primary research area centers on the psycholinguistic nature and dynamics of second language acquisition, simultaneous first language acquisition and heritage speaker bilingualism. More specifically, I investigate the effects of linguistic and psycholinguistic factors in the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax and semantics in child and adult heritage speakers, simultaneous bilingual children, and second language learners. Although I work primarily on the acquisition of Spanish, I also conduct research with Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese and Catalan. I'm interested to find out how bilingual children and adults develop knowledge of Spanish morphosyntactic patterns, including tense and aspect distinctions, copula verbs ser and estar in Spanish and Catalan, interrogative subject-verb inversion, differential object marking, gender concord, determiners, object clitics, and double complementizer questions, among other structures. Some of the research questions I pose in my research have to do with the role of age of onset of acquisition in child and adult bilingual development, the extent to which language exposure and use determine morphosyntactic divergences and the role of structure complexity and community characteristics among other variables. I'm currently working on the acquisition of English as heritage language among Mexican-American children in Mexico.
A secondary area of research pertains to the linguistic and educational advantages of child bilingual development, and more specifically on the effects of heritage language literacy development in the acquisition of both Spanish and English in school-age children. I'm the founder and director of the Aprendiendo a Leer Program, an engagement program serving Spanish-speaking children in the Lafayette community. This program integrates a service learning component, where Purdue students teach bilingual children in PreK to 5th grade how to read and write in Spanish as a heritage language at two elementary schools in Lafayette and Frankfort, Indiana.
If you are interested in being part of my lab, please do not hesitate to contact me. For more information on my current research projects, please visit my lab at www.cla.purdue.edu/SLC/SLARLAB/index.html.
Publications
Books
Cuza, A. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2018). Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula. De Gruyter Mouton.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/538913?language=en
Cuza, A. (2017). Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact and Change. Georgetown University Press.
press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/cuban-spanish-dialectology
Cuza, A. Czerwionka, L. & Olson, D. (2016). Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence. John Benjamins.
benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ihll.12/main
My primary research area centers on the psycholinguistic nature and dynamics of second language acquisition, simultaneous first language acquisition and heritage speaker bilingualism. More specifically, I investigate the effects of linguistic and psycholinguistic factors in the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax and semantics in child and adult heritage speakers, simultaneous bilingual children, and second language learners. Although I work primarily on the acquisition of Spanish, I also conduct research with Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese and Catalan. I'm interested to find out how bilingual children and adults develop knowledge of Spanish morphosyntactic patterns, including tense and aspect distinctions, copula verbs ser and estar in Spanish and Catalan, interrogative subject-verb inversion, differential object marking, gender concord, determiners, object clitics, and double complementizer questions, among other structures. Some of the research questions I pose in my research have to do with the role of age of onset of acquisition in child and adult bilingual development, the extent to which language exposure and use determine morphosyntactic divergences and the role of structure complexity and community characteristics among other variables. I'm currently working on the acquisition of English as heritage language among Mexican-American children in Mexico.
A secondary area of research pertains to the linguistic and educational advantages of child bilingual development, and more specifically on the effects of heritage language literacy development in the acquisition of both Spanish and English in school-age children. I'm the founder and director of the Aprendiendo a Leer Program, an engagement program serving Spanish-speaking children in the Lafayette community. This program integrates a service learning component, where Purdue students teach bilingual children in PreK to 5th grade how to read and write in Spanish as a heritage language at two elementary schools in Lafayette and Frankfort, Indiana.
If you are interested in being part of my lab, please do not hesitate to contact me. For more information on my current research projects, please visit my lab at www.cla.purdue.edu/SLC/SLARLAB/index.html.
Publications
Books
Cuza, A. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2018). Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula. De Gruyter Mouton.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/538913?language=en
Cuza, A. (2017). Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact and Change. Georgetown University Press.
press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/cuban-spanish-dialectology
Cuza, A. Czerwionka, L. & Olson, D. (2016). Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence. John Benjamins.
benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ihll.12/main
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Shin, N., Cuza, A. & Sánchez, L. (2022). 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
- López-Otero, Cuza, A. & Jiao, J. (2021). Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil. Second Language Research. June 2021. doi:10.1177/02676583211017603
- Cuza, A. & Sánchez, L. (2021). The Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Child and Adult Heritage Speakers. In D. Ayoun (ed.). The Acquisition of Gender (pp.71-94). Amsterdam. John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/sibil.63.04cuz
- García, A., Cuza, A., Lustres, E. (2021). The production and comprehension of Spanish se in L2 and Heritage Spanish. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211016537
- Cuza, A., Reyes, N., Lustres, E. (2020). 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
- 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.
- Cuza, A. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2020). 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.
- 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.
- Cuza, A., Miller, L., Pérez-Tattam, L., Ortiz-Vergara, M. (2018). Structure complexity effects and vulnerable domains in child heritage Spanish: The case of the Spanish personal a. International Journal of Bilingualism. 1-25.
- Cuza, A., Jiao J., & López-Otero, J.C. (2018). Does typological proximity matter? Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese and Mandarin speakers of Spanish. Languages, 3(2):13, 1-22.
- Cuza, A. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2018). Copulas Ser and Estar Distribution in Spanish/Catalan Bilinguals from Mallorca. In Alejandro Cuza & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula. De Gruyter Mouton.
- Czerwionka, L. & Cuza, A. (2017). A pragmatic analysis of L2 Spanish requests: Acquisition in three situational contexts during short-term study abroad. Intercultural Pragmatics, 14(3), 391-419.
- Cuza, A., Miller, L., Pasquarella, A. & Xi-Chen. (2017). The role of literacy instruction in the development of Spanish as a heritage language during childhood. The Heritage Language Journal, 14 (2), 100-123
- Czerwionka, L. & Cuza, A. (2017). The L2 acquisition of Spanish service industry requests in an immersion context. Hispania, 100(2), 239-260.
- Cuza, A. & Camacho, J. (2017). Pronominal subject expression with inanimate reference in heritage speakers of Cuban Spanish. In Alejandro Cuza (Ed.), Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact and Change. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press.
- Cuza, A., & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2017). Semantic Redistribution of Copula Ser/Estar in Catalan/Spanish Bilingual Children and Adults. In Proceedings for 41st Boston University Conference in Language Development (BUCLD). Cascadilla Press.
- Cuza, A., & López-Otero, J.C. (2016). The acquisition of the semantic values of the Spanish present and progressive forms in L2 and heritage Spanish. Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29(2), 462-486.
- Cuza, A., Miller, L., & Ortiz, M. (2016). On the production of differential object marking and wh-question formation in native and non-native Spanish. In Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela & Cristina Martínez-Sanz (Eds.), Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honor of Juana Liceras (pp.187-209). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Cuza, A. (2016). The status of interrogative subject-verb inversion in Spanish-English bilingual children. Lingua, 180, 124-138.
- Cuza, A. & Pérez-Tattam, R. (2016). Grammatical gender selection and phrasal word order in child heritage Spanish: A feature reassembly approach. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 50-68.
- Colantoni, L., Cuza, A. & Mazzaro, N. (2016). Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants. In Megan Armstrong, Nickolas Henriksen, and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance Intonation (pp.1-24). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Mazaro, N., Cuza, A. & Colantoni, L. (2016). Age effects and the Discrimination of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native Spanish. In Tortora, C., M. den Dikken, I. Montoya, & T. O'Neill (eds.). (2015). Selected Proceedings from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) (pp.277-300). John Benjamins.
- Cuza, A. & Frank, J. (2014). On the role of experience and age-related effects: Evidence from the Spanish CP. Second Language Research, 31, 3-28.
- Cuza, A. & Miller, L. (2015). The protracted acquisition of past tense aspectual values in child heritage Spanish. In Rachel Klassen, Juana Liceras & Elena Valenzuela (eds.), Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroad: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact (pp. 211-230). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A. T., & Sánchez, L. (2013). The role of semantic transfer in clitic-drop among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35(1), 93-125.
- Cuza, A. (2013). Cross-linguistic influence at the syntax proper: interrogative subject-verb inversion in heritage Spanish. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(1), 71-96.
- Cuza, A., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Pires, A., & Rothman, J. (2013). The syntax-semantics of bare and definite plural subjects in the L2 Spanish of English natives. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(5), 632-652.
- Cuza, A., Pérez-Tattam, R. Barajas, E., Miller, L., & Sadowski, C. (2013). The development of tense and aspect morphology in child and adult heritage Spanish: Implications for heritage language pedagogy. In John Schwieter (ed.), Innovative research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism (pp.193-220) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Miller, L. & Cuza, A. (2013). On the status of tense and aspect morphology in child heritage Spanish: An analysis of accuracy levels. In Cabrelli Amaro, J., Judy, T. & Pascual y Cabo, D. (eds.), Proceedings of 12th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2013) (pp.117-129). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Cuza, A. & Frank, J. (2011). Transfer effects at the syntax-semantics interface: The case of double-que questions in heritage Spanish. The Heritage Language Journal, 8(2), 66-89.
- Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). Clitic placement in Spanish/English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(2), 221-232.
- Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). From parental attitudes to input condition Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto. In Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman (Eds.), Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking Societies (pp. 49-176). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Cuza, A. (2010). The L1 attrition of the Spanish present tense. Hispania, 93(2),256-272.
- Cuza, A. (2010). The L2 acquisition of aspectual properties in Spanish. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 55(2), 1001-1028.
- Pérez-Leroux, A., Cuza, A., Majlanova, M. & Sánchez-Naranjo, J. (2008). Non-native Recognition of the Iterative and Habitual Meanings of Spanish Preterite and Imperfect Tenses. In Juana Liceras, Helmut Zobl and Helen Goodluck (Eds.), The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition (pp.432-451). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Cuza, A. & Frank, J. (2010). The acquisition of double que questions in heritage and L2 Spanish. In Melinda Heijl (ed.), Proceedings of the 2010 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference (CLA 2010) (pp. 1-13). Montreal, Quebec. May, 2010.
- Liceras, J., Mongeon, C., Cuza, A., Senn, C. & Spradlin, T. (2004). La adquisición en el aula sin input formal: los compuestos ‘exocéntricos’ de las interlenguas del español (Classroom acquisition without formal input: ‘exocentric’ compounds in the Spanish interlaguages). Revista Electrónica de didáctica del español como lengua extranjera (2004) 1-28. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Madrid, España. http://www.mepsyd.es/redele/revista/liceras.shtml
Book/article Reviews and Other Publications
- Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Cuza, A. (2018). Introduction: Language contact and change in the Iberian Peninsula. In A. Cuza and P. Guijarro-Fuentes (eds.), Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula (pp. 1-10). Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Cuza, A., Czerwionka, L. & Olson, D. (2016). Introduction. In Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (Eds.), Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From Linguistic Theory to Empirical Evidence (IX-XI). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
- Cuza, A. (2015). Review of Bilingual Language Acquisition: Spanish and English in the First Six Years by Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Hispania, 98, 2, 374-375.
- Cuza, A. & Pérez-Leroux, A. (2006). I came long time ago: Language attrition in long-time bilinguals. In Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network Magazine.
- Cuza, A. (2006). Review of First Language Acquisition by Eve Clark. Journal Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27, 2, 162-163.
- Cuza, A. (2001). Review of “The interaction of instruction and learner-internal factors in the acquisition of L2 morphosyntax” by Paul Toth. Boletín de la asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, 24, 96-97.
- Cuza, A. (2000). Review of “Reading and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition” by Paribakht, T. Sima & M. Wesche. In Boletín de la asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. 91-92.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
Extramural Funding
2022-2023 US Fulbright Scholar (García Robles). Fulbright Commission/COMEXUS
The learning of Spanish and English as heritage languages in childhood: Implications for classroom instruction in Mexico and the US. $32,000
2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) $179,979 CAN
Insight Grants. Government of Canada.
Role: Collaborator; PI: Laura Colantoni
2016 University of Balearic Islands, Spain. 7,361.46 euros
Spanish-Catalan Early and Late Bilingual Development (PI)
Office of Research Development. UIB. Palma de Mallorca.
2015-2019 National Institute of Health (NIH) $1.26 million
PI: S. San Miguel. Co-PIs: A. Cuza, W.D. Burgess, L. Carleton,
K. Davies.
2005-2006 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship $20,000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. Federal Government of Canada.
2003-2004 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) $15,000
Government of Ontario, Canada.
2002-2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) $15,000
Government of Ontario, Canada
Intramural Funding
2019 Purdue Research Foundation (PRF Grant). Purdue University $25,000
Title: The Acquisition of Spanish Direct Object Pronouns by Chinese-speaking Learners of Spanish
Role: PI (Student Supported: Jian Jiao. PhD Student Spanish Linguistics)
2018 Vice-President for Research and Partnerships. Purdue University $42,362
Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences Grant
Title: The role of age of onset of bilingualism and input factors in the acquisition of Spanish as a heritage language in Spanish/English bilingual children of Mexican background
Role: PI. Co-PIs: Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Naomi Shin (University of New Mexico)
2018 Vice-President for Research and Partnerships. Purdue University $4,598
Non-Laboratory Equipment Grant
2018 Study Abroad SAIL Grant. Purdue University $4,000
2018 College of Liberal Arts. ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts. $1,500
Purdue University
2018 College of Liberal Arts. ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts. $2,000
Purdue University
2016 ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts $1,500
2015 Community Engagement Research Award $5,000
2014-2019 University Faculty Scholar Award. Office of the Provost. $50,000
2013 The development of bilingual grammars during childhood $2,000
and its effects on Children’s Performance in the STEM School
Curriculum. PI: Elena Benedicto. Co-PI: Cuza
2013-2014 Enhancing Research in the Humanities and the Arts Grant $48,026.20
PI: A. Cuza-Blanco; Co-PIs: D. Olson, L. Czerwionka, B. Brown,
F. Roberts, E. Benedicto
2013 Community Engagement Research Award $5,000
2013 Purdue University’s nominee for Lynton Award for the Scholarship of
Engagement. The New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
University of Massachusetts.
2013 College of Liberal Arts’ nominee for Faculty Engagement Scholar Award
Office of Engagement.
2012 Clifford Kinley Trust Award $20,000
Office of the Vice President for Research
2012 PRF Summer Faculty Grant $8,000
2011 Service Learning Faculty Development Grantee $2,000
2011 Instructional Equipment Allocation Grant $5,888
2008 International Travel Grant $1400
2008 Dammon Dean’s Scholars Mentor $500
2005 Milton A. Buchanan Travel Fellowship $2,500
Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto.
Awards
2023 Excellence in Discovery and Creative Endeavors Award $1,500
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University
2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (García Robles).
The U.S-Mexico Commission for Educational Exchange $32,000
2019 Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award $2,000
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University
2018 Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
School of Languages and Cultures
2017 Diversity Award. Indiana Extension Educators Association
2014-2020 University Faculty Scholar Award. Office of the Provost. $50,000
2013 Purdue University’s nominee for Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement. The New England Resource Center for Higher Education. University of Massachusetts.
2012 Clifford Kinley Trust Award $20,000
Office of the Vice President for Research
PI: A. Cuza; Co-PIs: L. Miller; A. Pasquarella; Becky Xi Chen
2013 College of Liberal Arts’ nominee for Faculty Engagement Scholar Award
Office of Engagement.
2013 Community Engagement Research Award. CLA $5,000
2015 Community Engagement Research Award. CLA $5,000
Extramural Funding
2022-2023 US Fulbright Scholar (García Robles). Fulbright Commission/COMEXUS
The learning of Spanish and English as heritage languages in childhood: Implications for classroom instruction in Mexico and the US. $32,000
2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) $179,979 CAN
Insight Grants. Government of Canada.
Role: Collaborator; PI: Laura Colantoni
2016 University of Balearic Islands, Spain. 7,361.46 euros
Spanish-Catalan Early and Late Bilingual Development (PI)
Office of Research Development. UIB. Palma de Mallorca.
2015-2019 National Institute of Health (NIH) $1.26 million
PI: S. San Miguel. Co-PIs: A. Cuza, W.D. Burgess, L. Carleton,
K. Davies.
2005-2006 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship $20,000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. Federal Government of Canada.
2003-2004 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) $15,000
Government of Ontario, Canada.
2002-2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) $15,000
Government of Ontario, Canada
Intramural Funding
2019 Purdue Research Foundation (PRF Grant). Purdue University $25,000
Title: The Acquisition of Spanish Direct Object Pronouns by Chinese-speaking Learners of Spanish
Role: PI (Student Supported: Jian Jiao. PhD Student Spanish Linguistics)
2018 Vice-President for Research and Partnerships. Purdue University $42,362
Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences Grant
Title: The role of age of onset of bilingualism and input factors in the acquisition of Spanish as a heritage language in Spanish/English bilingual children of Mexican background
Role: PI. Co-PIs: Liliana Sánchez (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Naomi Shin (University of New Mexico)
2018 Vice-President for Research and Partnerships. Purdue University $4,598
Non-Laboratory Equipment Grant
2018 Study Abroad SAIL Grant. Purdue University $4,000
2018 College of Liberal Arts. ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts. $1,500
Purdue University
2018 College of Liberal Arts. ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts. $2,000
Purdue University
2016 ASPIRE Grant. College of Liberal Arts $1,500
2015 Community Engagement Research Award $5,000
2014-2019 University Faculty Scholar Award. Office of the Provost. $50,000
2013 The development of bilingual grammars during childhood $2,000
and its effects on Children’s Performance in the STEM School
Curriculum. PI: Elena Benedicto. Co-PI: Cuza
2013-2014 Enhancing Research in the Humanities and the Arts Grant $48,026.20
PI: A. Cuza-Blanco; Co-PIs: D. Olson, L. Czerwionka, B. Brown,
F. Roberts, E. Benedicto
2013 Community Engagement Research Award $5,000
2013 Purdue University’s nominee for Lynton Award for the Scholarship of
Engagement. The New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
University of Massachusetts.
2013 College of Liberal Arts’ nominee for Faculty Engagement Scholar Award
Office of Engagement.
2012 Clifford Kinley Trust Award $20,000
Office of the Vice President for Research
2012 PRF Summer Faculty Grant $8,000
2011 Service Learning Faculty Development Grantee $2,000
2011 Instructional Equipment Allocation Grant $5,888
2008 International Travel Grant $1400
2008 Dammon Dean’s Scholars Mentor $500
2005 Milton A. Buchanan Travel Fellowship $2,500
Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto.
Awards
2023 Excellence in Discovery and Creative Endeavors Award $1,500
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University
2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (García Robles).
The U.S-Mexico Commission for Educational Exchange $32,000
2019 Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award $2,000
College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University
2018 Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
School of Languages and Cultures
2017 Diversity Award. Indiana Extension Educators Association
2014-2020 University Faculty Scholar Award. Office of the Provost. $50,000
2013 Purdue University’s nominee for Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement. The New England Resource Center for Higher Education. University of Massachusetts.
2012 Clifford Kinley Trust Award $20,000
Office of the Vice President for Research
PI: A. Cuza; Co-PIs: L. Miller; A. Pasquarella; Becky Xi Chen
2013 College of Liberal Arts’ nominee for Faculty Engagement Scholar Award
Office of Engagement.
2013 Community Engagement Research Award. CLA $5,000
2015 Community Engagement Research Award. CLA $5,000
Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Research Lab
Current and former lab members:
Undergraduate Students
• Samuel Hammons. Linguistics. 2022-2023
• Krista Renne Riegsecker. Speech Language and Hearing Sciences Major. 2019-2020
• Jacob King. Spanish and Linguistics Major. 2019-2020
• Estuardo D. Rivera. Linguistics Major. 2017-2018
• Gustavo López. Spanish and Political Science Major: University Honors Program and CLA Honors Program. 2012-2013.
• Amber Hunnewel. Spanish and Psychology Major. CLA Honors Program (2012)
• Sharon Smith. Spanish and Elementary Education Major. CLA Honors Program (2012)
Graduate Students
• Francisco Clavijo. M.A student, Linguistics. 2022-present.
• Santiago Castillo. M.A student, Linguistics. 2022-present.
• Edier Gómez Alzate. PhD student, Linguistics. 2021-present.
• Laura Solano. PhD student, Linguistics. 2019-present
• Nancy Reyes. PhD Student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-present
• Dafne Zanelli. M.A student, Linguistics. 2021-2023
• Ana Maria Molina. M.A student, Linguistics. 2018-2022
• Eduardo Lustres. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2017*
• Aida García. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2017*
• Julio López Otero. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2014-2016 ****
• Joshua Frank. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2010-2012**
• Jian Jiao. PhD. student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2021.***
• Lauren Miller. PhD student, Spanish Linguistics. Lab Intern and Coordinator. 2011-2016******
• Mariluz Ortiz Vergara. MA student, Spanish Linguistics. 2014-2016*
(The asterisk refers to the number of published papers with the grad student intern)
Current and former lab members:
Undergraduate Students
• Samuel Hammons. Linguistics. 2022-2023
• Krista Renne Riegsecker. Speech Language and Hearing Sciences Major. 2019-2020
• Jacob King. Spanish and Linguistics Major. 2019-2020
• Estuardo D. Rivera. Linguistics Major. 2017-2018
• Gustavo López. Spanish and Political Science Major: University Honors Program and CLA Honors Program. 2012-2013.
• Amber Hunnewel. Spanish and Psychology Major. CLA Honors Program (2012)
• Sharon Smith. Spanish and Elementary Education Major. CLA Honors Program (2012)
Graduate Students
• Francisco Clavijo. M.A student, Linguistics. 2022-present.
• Santiago Castillo. M.A student, Linguistics. 2022-present.
• Edier Gómez Alzate. PhD student, Linguistics. 2021-present.
• Laura Solano. PhD student, Linguistics. 2019-present
• Nancy Reyes. PhD Student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-present
• Dafne Zanelli. M.A student, Linguistics. 2021-2023
• Ana Maria Molina. M.A student, Linguistics. 2018-2022
• Eduardo Lustres. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2017*
• Aida García. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2017*
• Julio López Otero. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2014-2016 ****
• Joshua Frank. M.A student, Spanish Linguistics. 2010-2012**
• Jian Jiao. PhD. student, Spanish Linguistics. 2015-2021.***
• Lauren Miller. PhD student, Spanish Linguistics. Lab Intern and Coordinator. 2011-2016******
• Mariluz Ortiz Vergara. MA student, Spanish Linguistics. 2014-2016*
(The asterisk refers to the number of published papers with the grad student intern)