I am a sociolinguist and a creolist. My research focuses on the sociolinguistic aspect of contact-induced features from Portuguese and Spanish. I have carried out long-term research in the Helvécia community from Bahia, Brazil, to document Helvécia Afro-Brazilian Portuguese. I have also worked with other Afro-Iberian varieties, such as Afro-Bolivian Spanish and African Portuguese. My most recent work focuses on how language ideologies affect dialect shift among speakers of minority languages. I am also currently working on a co-edited multilingual handbook entitled Afro-Iberian Languages: Contact and Sociohistory. The book will introduce several Afro-Iberian languages and varieties created by Africans or their descendants in the Americas and Africa.
Grants and Awards
2022 Morris and Anita Broad Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University
2021 Presidential Fellowship Award, Graduate School, The Ohio State University
2020 International Research and Scholar Grant, The Ohio State University
Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Fellowship (2020 Spring and Summer Semesters), The Ohio State University
Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics Grant, Linguistic Society of America
2019 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants, Center of Latin American Studies, The Ohio State University.
Recent / Major Publications
2022. Substrate influences in highland Spanish varieties of South America: Afro-Yungueño and Antioqueño from a comparative perspective. Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles. 12(2022), 1-54. First author with Eliot Raynor.
2021. Concordância de gênero em português: aproximações entre variedades africanas e afro-brasileira. Revista do Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo. 18(3), 40-69. Second author with Ana Lívia Agostinho and Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos.
2021. The Future Repeats itself: Priming Effects in Spanish Future Expressions. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Linguística. 19(1), 1-18. First author with Hugo Salgado.
2020. Motivações Pragmáticas para o Surgimento de Estruturas de Dupla Negação na Região Sul do Brasil. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 62, 1-22. Third author with Marcos Goldnadel and Paloma Petry.
2019. Models of Morphological Learning: Implications for Typology and Change. Journal of Language Modelling 7(1), 53-98. Co-author with Elsner, Micha, Andrea D. Sims, Alexander Erdmann, Antonio Hernandez, Evan Jaffe, Lifeng Jin, Martha Booker Johnson, Shuan Karim, David L. King, Byung-Doh Oh, Nathan Rasmussen, Cory Shain, Stephanie Antetomaso, Kendra V. Dickinson, Noah Diewald, Michelle McKenzie & Symon Stevens-Guille.
2018. Experimental Evidence for 2SG Direct Object Pronoun Choice in Brazilian Portuguese. Revista Linguíʃtica 14(2), 259-290. Fourth author with Scott Schwenter, Mark Hoff, Kendra V. Dickinson, and Justin Bland.
2018. Testing the Role of Immediacy on Imperative Form in Brazilian Portuguese Dialects. Revista Linguíʃtica 14(2), 231-258. First author with Scott Schwenter.
In Preparation. Línguas Afro-Ibéricas: contato e sócio-história / Lenguas afro-ibericas: contacto y sociohistória. Edited book in the series Contact and Multilingualism. Language Science Press. First author with Ana Lívia Agostinho.
In Preparation. Location Marking in Helvécia Portuguese: A Case of Contact-Induced Change. To be submitted to Journal of Language Contact.
In Preparation. Language Ideologies and Dialect Shift in Helvécia Portuguese. To be submitted to Journal of Sociolinguistics.