Recent research results

a) Publication of the book, , La sociolingüística de la Variació, Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias (1995), reviewed in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1, no. 2, 297-299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997). (Reviewer: J.I. Hualde).

b) Publication of the book, Multilingualism in Spain (http://www.iula.upf.es/uval/multilingualism) Clevedon, Buffalo, Toronto & Sydney: Multilingual Matters (2001), reviewed twice in Linguist List:

- Vol-12-1066. Mon Apr 16 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Sílvia Rodríguez, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Spanish. Department of Hispanic Studies. College of Charleston.
- Vol-12-1552. Wed Jun 13 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Margaret Simmons, Associate Professor of English at Nagano University in Japan.

c) Publication of several individual and joint articles on language contact (CICYT (SEC96-0627) (Investigator principal: M. Teresa Turell):

- "Variation in Language Interaction Phenomena: A global approach". SKY Journal of Linguistics, vol 12 (1999), pp. 7-26 (with C. Corcoll, J.M. Fontana, M. Forcadell and E. Vallduví
- "More on the interplay between internal and external factors: dialect convergence and divergence of Catalan". In: K. J. Matthier (ed.), VarioLingua: Convergence and divergence in a changing Europe. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2000), pp. 43-56.
- "Variation, language contact and genre specificity: linguistic traces of English in present-day written Catalan". In: F.San Vicente (ed.), L'inglese e le altre lingue europee. Studi sull'interferenza lingüística. Bologna: CLUEB (2002), pp. 237-256.

d) Publication with other members of LIPPS of the book: The LIDES coding manual: Document for Preparing and Analysing Language Interaction Data. Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, London: Kingston Press (2000). European research group LIPPS: Language Interaction in Plurilingual and Plurilectal Speakers. (with M.Forcadell et al.)

e) Marketing of the FABULA tool and CD-Rom. European project FABULA: Educational bilingual multimedia materials for children (with C. Pérez and A. Cabot).