The 1st Symposium on Spanish-English bilingualism in California brings together leading scholars investigating the linguistic practices and patterns of variation across Spanish-English bilinguals throughout the state of California. This inaugural symposium will serve to engage researchers in cross-campus collaborations and interdisciplinary initiatives.  The symposium’s keynote address will be given by Professor Ana Celia Zentella (professor emerita, UC San Diego) on October 11th at the Music Recital Hall. Please visit the keynote event page to register and for more information.

Please check back soon for full symposium schedule. The day’s program will feature:

Abel Cruz (Santa Clara University)
Talk title: “Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish: Linking the heritage experience to diminutive use in everyday speech”

 

 

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz (California State University, Northridge)
Talk title: Empowering Californian Bilinguals through Heritage Language Education

 

 

 

Anne L. Beatty-Martínez (University of California, San Diego)
Talk title: Understanding Bilingualism in Context

 

 

 

Claudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Spanish language ideologies within the Latinx community in California: Critical Sociolinguistics and Pedagogical Implications

 

 

Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez (University of California, Davis)
Talk title: Linguistic belongingness in an Emerging HSI

 

 

 

Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California Riverside)
Talk title: Code-Meshing, diglossia and diaglossia in Californio Spanish and California Spanish

 

 

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete (Pomona College)
Talk title: Place-dependent stop salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching

 

 

Eve Higby (California State University, East Bay)
Talk title: Disentangling cross-language facilitation and interference in Spanish-English bilinguals

 

 

Gabriela Simon-Cereijido (California State University, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Linguistic Skills and Perspectives of Spanish-English Students in Health Professions

 

 

Gabriella Licata (University of California, Riverside)
Talk title: Examining generational bias differences towards Californian Spanish features

 

 

Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (California State University Long Beach)
Talk title: From Northern (white) Spanish to Southern Cool Spanglish: Perceptual Dialectology in California

 

 

Ji Young Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
Talk title: Predicting areas of convergence and divergence between heritage and monolingual Spanish based on the phonological development of Spanish and English

 

Justin Davidson (University of California, Berkeley)
Talk title: Legitimizing Spanish-English Contact in U.S. Spanish: Sociophonetic Variation in Spanish Orthographic <b> and <v>

 

 

Lauren Schmidt (San Diego State University)
Talk title: Exploring lived language experiences of Spanish-English bilinguals in the San Diego border region and how these shape issues of identity

 

 

Mark Amengual (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Talk title: Intergenerational language shift and interlingual influence in the acoustic realization of Spanish-speaking Californians

 

 

 

This event is sponsored by the Bilingualism Research Lab, Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA, the Comparative Language Sciences Project, the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, and UC MRPI