Mentoring
If you are interested in working under my supervision, please check our MA and Ph.D. programs, or contact me directly.
Current doctoral students at UPF:
- Katrina Blong (co-supervised with Adriana Soto-Corominas, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya): "The quantity and quality of input in heritage language English in Catalonia: Does the nature of the input matter?".
- Lara Culev: "La adquisición del Italiano como lengua de herencia en hablantes de segunda generación en Cataluña".
Co-supervisions:
- Ana Espíritu Santo (co-supervised with Nélia Maria Pedro Alexandre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “The Acquisition relative clauses in L2 Portuguese by Mandarin L1 learners”. Defense date: May 17th, 2022.
During my years as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, I supervised several MA projects, and the following Ph.D. Dissertations:
- Ewelina Barski: “The OPC in Polish and Spanish heritage speakers living in Canada”. Completion Date: August 23rd, 2013. Placement: Tenure-Track at SUNY-Brockport.
- Diana Botero: “The Role of Semantics in Second Language Acquisition and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Case of Past Counterfactuals. Completion Date: March 18th, 2016.
- Itziri Moreno: “Clitic mapping in Spanish-P’urhépecha bilinguals”, Defense Date: June 21st, 2018. Placement: Lecturer at University of Washington, Tacoma.
- Adriana Soto: “Variability in clitic expression in Catalan language”, Completion Date: June 28th, 2018. Placement: Post-Doc at University of Alberta (Johanne Paradis’ Lab).