Silvina Montrul

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Silvina Montrul is a linguist specializing in generative approaches to second language acquisition. She is currently Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, as well as Second Language Acquisition, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1]

Career[edit]

Montrul received her PhD from McGill University in 1998, under the supervision of Lydia White.

Montrul's research has focused on adult second language acquisition of syntax and morphology. She has published books on incomplete acquisition of language and heritage speakers, as well as the acquisition of Spanish. She has been named University Scholar for University of Illinois in 2013,[2] and is co-chief editor of the journal Second Language Research.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Montrul, S. (2013) El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.[4][5][6][7]
  • Montrul, S. (2008) Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism. Re-examining the Age Factor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.[8][9][10]
  • Montrul, S. (2004) The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic Development in Monolingual and Bilingual L1 Acquisition and in Adult L2 Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.[11][12][13]
  • Montrul, S. (1998) Transitivity Alternations in Second Language Acquisition: A Crosslinguistic Study of English, Turkish and Spanish. PhD Thesis, McGill University.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dr. Silvina Montrul – Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Linguistics News, Announcements, and Publications". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "SAGE: Second Language Research". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  4. ^ Buckingham, Louisa (2013), "El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante", Book Notices, Linguistic Society of America.
  5. ^ Bartens, Angela (2014), "El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante", Book Reviews, Sociolinguistic Studies, 8 (1): 175–181, doi:10.1558/sols.v8i1.175.
  6. ^ Cabrera-Puche, María J. (2014), "El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante", Book Reviews, Hispania, 97 (4): 709–711, doi:10.1353/hpn.2014.0120, S2CID 142930369.
  7. ^ Smith, Patrick H. (2014), "El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante", Book Reviews, The Modern Language Journal, 98 (3): 888–890, doi:10.1111/modl.12135.
  8. ^ Rothman, Jason (2009), "Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism", Book Reviews, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 31 (4): 646–647, doi:10.1017/S0272263109990088, S2CID 145163236.
  9. ^ Herschensohn, Julia (2009), "Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism", Book Reviews, The Modern Language Journal, 93 (4): 651–653, doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00951.x, JSTOR 25612253.
  10. ^ Gorman, Lillian (2010), "Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism" (PDF), Book Reviews, Heritage Language Journal, 7 (2): 187–191, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-12.
  11. ^ Hodgson, Miren (2006), "The Acquisition of Spanish", Book Reviews, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28 (1): 149–150, doi:10.1017/S0272263106320050, S2CID 146722944
  12. ^ Rothman, Jason (2006), "The Acquisition of Spanish", Book Reviews, The Modern Language Journal, 90 (3): 449–451, doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2006.00434.x, JSTOR 3876861.
  13. ^ Pirvulescu, Mihaela (2009), "The Acquisition of Spanish", Book Reviews, The Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 54 (1): 182–184, doi:10.1353/cjl.0.0029, S2CID 145501408.

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