Conference Program

Linguistic Association of the Southwest
LASSO 2023 MEETING DETAILS

Site:  University of Colorado Denver

Keynote Speaker:

  • Glenn Martínez, University of Texas-San Antonio

Presidential Address:

  • Rachel Showstack, Wichita State University

Presentation Format:

Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Presentations should be given in the same language as the abstract.
 

All conference sessions, other than the Presidential Reception, will take place in the Springhill Suites by Marriott Hotel (Thursday), and North Classroom Building (Friday/Saturday), a three-minute walk from the Conference Hotel on the Auraria Campus of the University of Colorado Denver.  

Click here for the conference abstracts, arranged alphabetically by author

Thursday, October 5

1:00-5:00 Conference registration: SpringHill Suites 2nd floor atrium

1:30-3:00 p.m.         

LASSO Executive Meeting: Plaza 118

Break: 3:00-3:15 p.m.

3:15 p.m.

Conference opening remarks: Springhill Suites Ballroom 2nd floor

Michelle Ramos Pellicia, LASSO Executive Director

Devin Jenkins, Local Arrangements Chair

Concurrent Sessions 3:30-5:00 p.m.

 

Session 1A

Springhill Suites Ballroom A

Session 1B

Springhill Suites Ballroom B

Session 1C

Springhill Suites Ballroom C

 

Spanish of the Southwest

Chair: Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza

Language Attitudes

Chair: Gabriela De Robles

Language Ideologies

Chair: Devin Jenkins

Thursday
3:30-4:00 p.m.

 

 

Affective response and language attitudes: Predicting language use in bilingual communities
Teresa Blumenthal
University of Texas at Austin

 

Challenging the English-Only Norm in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of Dual Language Bilingual Education at UTRGV
Katherine Christoffersen, Dania López García, Javier Cavazos
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Thursday
4:00-4:30 p.m.

On the effect of language contact on variation in US Southwest Spanish: A study of extralinguistic conditioning of mood selection
Isabella Calafate
Baylor University

 

Percepciones de un grupo de hispanohablantes acerca de la vitalidad etnolingüística del español en Lincoln, Nebraska
Josefa Samper Suarez
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Thursday
4:30-5:00 p.m.

Dispelling Myths about Northern New Mexican Spanish
Mark Waltermire
New Mexico State University

Perceptions and attitudes towards the display of Asturian linguistic and semiotic resources in the public sphere
Alba Arias Álvarez

University of Alcalá 
Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley

Western Washington University

On dead horses and sociolinguistics: The persistent “standard” construct
Daniel J. Villa
New Mexico State University (ret.)

Coffee Break: 5:00-5:30 p.m.

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Keynote Address: Springhill Suites Ballroom

Speaking from the heart: Reflections on teaching Spanish for Latino health”

Glenn Martínez, University of Texas San Antonio

Friday, October 6

Conference Registration 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in North Classroom in front of room 1602

Concurrent Sessions 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

Session 2A

North Classroom 1602

Session 2B

North Classroom 1604

Session 2C

North Classroom 1608

Session 2D

North Classroom 1535

 

Morphosyntax

Chair: Mark Waltermire

Linguistic Landscapes

Chair: Jade Newton

Language inclusivity and identity

Chair: Sarah Lease

Indigenous Languages

Chair: Daniel Villa

Friday
8:30-9 a.m.

Examining the “stability” of the syntax–discourse interface of Basque heritage speakers
Ager Gondra

University of Miami

Comparing discursive spaces: the analysis of Spanish linguistic landscapes in Alabama
Alicia Cipria, Erin O'Rourke
The University of Alabama

Inclusive language in Spanish: when the imposition of morphological change is no longer restricted to the Real Academia
Jabier Elorrieta

New York University

 

Sobre la Presencia de Hispanismos en Dos Variedades del Ixil
Irene Arias Quintero

University of Texas at Austin

Friday
9-9:30 a.m.

Exploring Present Perfect Grammaticalization in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (PAS)
Margarita Jara

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Intersectional Dialogue in the Linguistic Landscape of Honolulu Chinatown
Jacob Algrim

East West Center Student Affiliate

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Che, bo, che bolichero: Competing familiarizers in Uruguayan Spanish
María Irene Moyna

Texas A&M University

Linguistic diversity in Indigenous Guatemalan Communities in Kansas
Raúl Rangel Fernández

Wichita State University

Friday

9:30-10 a.m.

A unified account for lavaplatos, correveidile, and no sé qué
Adolfo Ausín

Michigan State University

Exploring the linguistic landscape of a Hispanic Serving Institution in Southern California
Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia

California State University San Marcos

Actitudes en pro y en contra sobre el uso del lenguaje inclusivo y su enseñanza en clases de Español. ¿Es una moda social e ideológica o un cambio permanente en la evolución de la lengua?
Mica Boh
Mullen High School, Denver
Brisa del Bosque
New Mexico State University

 

Break 10:00-10:15 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions 10:15-11:45 a.m.

 

Session 3A

North Classroom 1602

Session 3B

North Classroom 1604

Session 3C

North Classroom 1608

Session 3D

North Classroom 1535

 

Phonology

Chair: Margarita Jara

Perspectives on Identity

Chair: Valeria Ochoa

Global Perspectives of Spanish

Chair: Katherine Christoffersen

Varieties of English

Chair: Erin O'Rourke

Friday
10:15-10:45  a.m.

Frequency effects in the lexicon: Spanish-speaking children’s /d/ realizations
Sarah Lease

University of New Mexico

British Latino: Investigating the semiotic construction of a mediatized figure of personhood
Jonathan Pye
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Desafíos culturales y lingüísticos en un mundo globalizado: El caso de los auxiliares de conversación en España
Sergio Adrada-Rafael

Fairfield University

Code Switching and Linguistic Identity: A qualitative study on the usage of AAVE among African-American Professionals
Jade Newton

Northeastern Illinois University

Friday
10:45-11:15 a.m.

Rhotics in Spanglish codeswitching in intermediate-advanced Spanish as a Heritage Language students: A longitudinal variation analysis
Carlos Enrique Ibarra

University of New Mexico

Analyzing the foodscapes of Hispanic food security information systems in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
Richard W. Hallett, 
Vick Perez-Segovia

Northeastern Illinois University

La telecolaboración y su efecto en las actitudes lingüísticas de hablantes de español como lengua de herencia (LH) y como segunda lengua (L2)
Gilberto García, Daniel Ríos-Lopera, Arely Muñoz, Judith Navarro
Texas Tech University HSC, El Paso
Manuela Ortiz
Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey

“We work hard and get nothen for it” : Regional variation in pin/pen merger in a post-Reconstruction corpus
Cassidy Hartig
Kansas State University
Mary Kohn
Kansas State University

Friday

11:15-11:45 a.m.

English-Spanish Heritage Speakers and L2 Learners Alike: The Prosody of Clitics in the Present Continuous Sentence
Antonio Martín Gómez

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

 

Teaching Spanish in India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions
Rey Romero
University of Houston-Downtown
Subhas Yadav
University of Notre-Dame

I says, she says: Reported speech in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies
Lamont Antieau

University of Kentucky

Lunch on your own: 11:45-1:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions 1:15-2:45 p.m.

 

Session 4A

North Classroom 1602

Session 4B

North Classroom 1604

Session 4C

North Classroom 1608

Session 4D

North Classroom  1535

 

Varieties of Spanish

Chair: Carlos Enrique Ibarra

Language in Community

Chair: Sergio Adrada-Rafael

Heritage Learners

Chair: Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley

 

Friday
1:15-1:45 p.m.

Interlanguage Convergence and Dominance in an L1 Portuguese Speaker Living in Santa Rosa de Yavarí, Perú
Thomas A. Robins
University of Texas at Austin

Graphic Medicine and Community Engagement: Crafting a Doña from the Inland Empire
Martina Visconti, Covadonga Lamar Prieto
University of California, Riverside

Centering Indigeneity in SHL Education: Theoretical and Pedagogical Considerations
Valeria Ochoa

Oregon State University

 

Friday
1:45-2:15 p.m.

Language Contact Folk Knowledge: The Case of the Speakers of the Spanish of Quito
Paola Enríquez Duque

The Ohio State University

La investigación participativa basada en la comunidad y la profesionalización del rol de los intérpretes médicos
Maame Adwoa Ankrah
Wichita State University
Rommy Vargas- Bezzubikoff
Alce Su Voz

Identity, language insecurities, and the heritage language classroom: the case of a Filipino-Latina bilingual
Pablo Camus

SOKA University

 

Friday

2:15-2:45 p.m.

 

Equity in Action: Redefining Spanish for the Profession Curriculum for Empowering Spanish-Speaking Communities
Rossy Lima

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Attitudes, identity and experiences with Spanish: Perspectives from SHL/SNS and L2 learners
Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza, Gabriela Moreno, Jeff Longwell
New Mexico State University

 

Break 2:45-3:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions 3:00-4:30 p.m.

 

Session 5A

North Classroom 1602

Session 5B

North Classroom 1604

Session 5C

North Classroom 1608

Session 5D

North Classroom 1535

 

Language Policy & Linguistic Vitality

Chair: Jabier Elorrieta

Language in Social Media

Chair: Rossy Lima

Discourse Analysis

Chair: Rey Romero

Panel:

Publishing in IJLASSO

 

 

Friday
3-3:30  p.m.

Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Speech in the Colombian Media: A Raciolinguistic Perspective
Piero Visconte

University of Texas at Austin

Linguistic Discrimination on social media: Mock Languages practices in Ecuador
Daniela Narvaez Burbano

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sources of reduction in discourse markers? ¡Vamos a ver!
Esther L. Brown

Javier Rivas

University of Colorado Boulder

Friday
3:30-4 p.m.

Nomás que ya no es Valle Understanding the semantics and social indexicalities of contested place names in northern Nuevo México and southern Colorado in light of cognitive linguistic theory
Len Nils Beké
University of New Mexico

 

Aptitudes lingüísticas y redes sociales: El impacto de los medios de comunicación off-online en cómo se retrata a los hispanohablantes
Álvaro González Alba
Regis University

The Discourse Marker Well as a Hedge in Political Discourse in the Coney Barrett vs Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings
Susana de los Heros
University of Rhode Island

 

Coffee Break: 4:00-4:30 p.m.

4:30-6:00 p.m.

Presidential Address: North Classroom 1535

“Addressing the Big Picture as a Community-Engaged Linguist”

Rachel Showstack, Wichita State University

6:15 p.m. Presidential Reception: Tivoli Student Union, Adirondacks Room (4th Floor)

 

Saturday, October 7

Concurrent Sessions  9:00-10:30 a.m.

 

Session 6A

North Classroom 1602

Session 6B

North Classroom 1604

Session 6C

North Classroom 1535

 

Phonology/Morphology

Chair: Michael Abeyta

Influences on Teaching Languages

Chair: Gabriela De Robles

Panel: Promotion & Tenure

Chair: Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza

Saturday
9-9:30 a.m.

Falling Vowels’ in Mexican Spanish, Forty years later
Karol Ibarra Zetter

University of New Mexico

 

Application of ChatGPT Spanish Education Material in Language Classrooms
Miguel Muñoz Valtierra

University of California, Riverside

 

Saturday

9:30-10 a.m.

Exploring voseo: An analysis of Guatemala and El Salavador

Taylor Vicini

University of Colorado Denver

Impact of the One Belt One Road Initiative on languages and mobility within China and Russia
Yue Zhao

(unconfirmed)

 

Saturday

10-10:30 a.m.

No' dimo' par de botella' y ahora etamo' al garete: Examining claims of crossing in latin urban music
Derrek Powell

University of Texas at Austin

 

Break: 10:30-10:45 a.m.

10:45-11:45 a.m. Business Meeting: North Classroom 1602
11:45 a.m.

Conference closing remarks: North Classroom 1535

Michelle Ramos Pellicia, LASSO Executive Director