Edited Volumes

• Perpiñán, S., D. Heap, I. Moreno-Villamar, & A. Soto-Corominas (Eds.) (2017). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11. Selected Papers from the 44th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/rllt.11/main
• Judy, T & S. Perpiñán (Eds.) (2015). The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings. Issues in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (362 pp. + index).
• Bowles, M., R. Foote, S. Perpiñán, & R. Bhatt (Eds.) (2008). Selected Proceedings of Second Language Research Forum 2007. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Available here.

Dissertation

• Perpiñán, S. (2010). On L2 Grammar and Processing: The Case of Oblique Relative Clauses and the Null-Prep Phenomenon. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Available here. You can find a Summary of my dissertation here. 

Refereed Publications

Journal Articles

• Perpiñán, S., & Montrul, S. (2024). Does your regional variety help you acquire an additional language?: Spanish differential object marking in Northern and Southern Italians. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(5), 663–692. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22057.per

• Perpiñán, S., & Putnam, M. T. (2023). Filler-gap dependencies in bi- and multilingual grammars: Findings, challenges, and unknowns. Second Language Research, 02676583231214070. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231214070

• Fábregas, A., Marín, R., & Perpiñán, S. (2023). Events always take (place with) ser. Linguistics.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0142.

• Leivada, E., Rodríguez-Ordóñez, I., Parafita-Couto, MC., & Perpiñán, S. (2023). Bilingualism with Minority Languages: Why Searching for Unicorn Language Users does not Move us Forward. Applied Psycholinguistics.  Volume 44 / Issue 3, May 2023, pp 384 - 399. doi: 10.1017/S0142716423000036 

• Espírito Santo, A., Alexandre, N., &  Perpiñán, S. (2023). The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221137715.

• Perpiñán, S. & Cardinaletti, A. (2022). Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions. Second Language Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583221132198. Available here. 

• Perpiñán, S. & Soto-Corominas, A. (2021). Indirect Crosslinguistic Influence in Early Catalan-Spanish Bilingualism in Adulthood. Predicate Selection in Catalan Existential Constructions. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(6), 1463–1502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000308.

• Perpiñán, S. (2020). What can the ‘atrittion via acquisition’ model predict? Second Language Research, 36(2), 167-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658319881183 Available here. 

• Perpiñán, S. (2020). Wh-Movement, Islands, and Resumption in L1 and L2 Spanish: Is (Un)Grammaticality the Relevant Property? Frontiers of Psychology, 11:395. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00395 Available here

• Perpiñán, S., Marín, R., & Moreno Villamar, I. (2020). The role of aspect in the acquisition of ser and estar in locative contexts by English-speaking learners of Spanish. Language Acquisition, 27(1), 35-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2019.1610408

• Perpiñán, S. (2018). On Convergence, Ongoing Language Change, and Crosslinguistic Influence in Direct Object Expression in Catalan-Spanish Bilingualism. Languages 3(2):14. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3020014. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2017). Language Change at the Individual Level? A comment to ‘The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual develoment’. by M. Schmid and B. Köpke, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7(6), 750-753.

• Perpiñán, S. (2017). Catalan-Spanish Bilingualism Continuum: The Expression of Adverbial Clitics in Different Types of Early Bilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Available here.

• Navarro- Pérez, J.J., Pérez-Cosín, J.V., & Perpiñán, S. (2015). El proceso de socialización de los adolescentes: entre la inclusión y el riesgo. Recomendaciones para una ciudadadía sostenible. Pedagogía Social. Revista Interuniversitaria, 25, 143-170.

• Perpiñán, S. (2015). L2 Grammar and L2 Processing in the Acquisition of Spanish Prepositional Relative Clauses. Bilingualism: Language, and Cognition, 18(04), 577-596. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000583. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2014). Locatives and existentials in L2 Spanish: the acquisition of the semantic contrasts between ser, estar and haber. Second Language Research, 30(4), 485-514. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2011). Optionality in Bilingual Native Grammars. Language, Interaction and Acquisition,  2,2. 312-341. Available here. 

• Montrul, S. & Perpiñán, S. (2011). Assessing differences and similarities between instructed heritage language learners and L2 learners in their knowledge of Spanish Tense-Aspect and Mood (TAM) morphology. Heritage Language Journal 8(1), 90-133. http://www.heritagelanguages.org/Journal.aspx

• Montrul, S., Foote, R., & Perpiñán, S. (2008). Gender agreement in adult second language Learners and Spanish heritage speakers: The effects of age and context of acquisition. Language Learning, 58 (3), 503-553. Montrul Foote Perpinan 2008.pdf

Book Chapters

• Perpiñán, S. & Marín, R. (2024). Ch. 24: Copular Clauses. In The Routledge Handbook Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics edited by Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, and Roumyana Slabakova.

• Perpiñán, S., & Marín, R. (2021). Aspect in the acquisition of the Spanish locative paradigm by Italian L2 learners. In S. Baauw, F. Drijkoningen, & L. Meroni (Eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 (pp. 192–204). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.357.10per

• Perpiñán, S. (2021). Morphology and L2 Acquisition. In A. Fábregas, V. Acedo-Matellán,  G. Armstrong, M.C. Cuervo, and I. Pujol (Eds.) Chapter 37. The Handbook of Spanish Morphology. (pp.526-537) Oxfordshire: Routledge. 

• Judy, T. & Perpiñán, S. (2015). The importance of crosslinguistic comparison in the study of the acquisition of Spanish. In T. Judy & S. Perpiñán (Eds.) The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2015). The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers. In T. Judy & S. Perpiñán (Eds.) The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings (pp. 105-132). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2013). Accounting for variability in L2 data: type of knowledge, task effects and linguistic structure. In Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, John Schwieter, (Ed.) John Benjamins. Available here.

• Perpiñán, S. (2012). Optionality in Bilingual Native Grammars. In Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke (eds.), First Language Attrition (127-156). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Perpiñán, S. (2008). Acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in two types of Spanish-English bilinguals. In J. Bruhn de Garavito, & E. Valenzuela (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Available here.

• Montrul, S., Foote, R., & Perpiñán, S. (2008). Knowledge of Wh-movement in Spanish L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers. In J. Bruhn de Garavito, & E. Valenzuela (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2006 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Available here.

• Montrul, S., Foote, R., Perpiñán, S., Thornhill, D. & Vidal, S. (2006). Full Access and Age Effects in Adult Bilingualism: An Investigation of Spanish Accusative Clitics and Word Order. In N. Sagarra, & Toribio, A. J.,(Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (217-228). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/9/index.html

• Perpiñán, S., & Montrul, S. (2006). On Binding Asymmetries in Dative Alternation Constructions in L2 Spanish. In C. A. Klee & T. L. Face, (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (135-148). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/casp/7/index.html

Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Perpiñán, S. & Soto-Corominas, A. (2022) Existential Constructions in Bilingual Catalan and Bilingual Spanish: Different Types of Crosslinguistic Influence. Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Ying Gong and Felix Kpogo, 643-656. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

• Bruhn de Garavito & Perpiñán, S. (2014). Subject pronouns and clitics in the Spanish interlanguage of French L1 speakers. In Canadian Linguistic Association Conference Proceedings. Available here

• Perpiñán, S. & Moreno, I. (2013). Inversion and case assignment in the language of Spanish heritage speakers. In Canadian Linguistic Association Conference Proceedings.  Available here.