Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo

Biographic Data

ID1155090
NAMENofiya Denbaum-Restrepo
GIVEN NAMESNofiya
FAMILY NAMEDenbaum-Restrepo
SIGNATUREDENBAUM-RESTREPO N
AFFILIATIONSMinnesota State University, Mankato
ORCID0000-0002-1422-8036
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Second Language Acquisition of Second-Person Singular Forms of Address

    Open AccessNofiya Denbaum-Restrepo, Nofiya Sarah Denbaum-Restrepo et al.ARTICLELanguages2025References: 32

    Previous studies have found that second language learners can acquire sociolinguistic variation. However, there is a lack of studies that examine the L2 acquisition of second-person singular forms of address (2PS) in Spanish, especially in the immersion context of study abroad. The current study examines the acquisition of Spanish 2PS by seven adults learning Spanish in Medellin, Colombia. Participants completed an oral discourse completion task …

  • A Sociolinguistic Examination of the Dual Usted in Medellín, Colombia

    Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo, Falcon Restrepo-RamosARTICLEHispania2024Cited by: 2

    The system of second person singular forms of address (2PS) in Medellín, Colombia is tripartite consisting of tú, vos , and usted , while also including the existence of a dual usted . The current study compares usage of the intimate usted versus the distant usted with data from an oral discourse completion task (DCT) while also investigating listeners' implicit language attitudes toward the usage of usted utilizing the matched guise technique. A…

  • The role of perceptual salience in a strengthening sound change

    Open AccessNofiya Denbaum-Restrepo, Eliot RaynorARTICLESpanish in Context2023

    The current study examines the extent to which perceptual factors may account for the emergence of assibilated variants of the alveopalatal approximant /j/ in two geographically remote varieties of Spanish. Participants from Medellin, Colombia and Santiago, Dominican Republic completed a discrimination task and a matched guise. Both tasks presented listeners with stimuli containing affricate [ʤ] and approximant [j] allophones of /j/. Participants…

  • Polymorphism of second person singular forms of address in the Spanish of Medellin, Colombia

    Open AccessNofiya Denbaum-RestrepoARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2023

  • The benefits of social interaction and proficiency for foreign language acquisition of Spanish conventional expressions

    Open AccessNofiya Denbaum-RestrepoARTICLESpanish in Context2022

    Several studies have examined the second language acquisition of English conventional expressions (CEs) in the study abroad context. However, there is a lack of studies that investigate Spanish CEs and CEs in general in the at-home context. This study examines the foreign language acquisition of Spanish CEs in the at-home context and the effect of proficiency and Spanish social interaction outside of the classroom. Three levels of learners (3rd s…

  • The Syntactic and Discourse Properties of Second Person Singular Forms of Address in Paisa Spanish

    Falcon Restrepo-Ramos, Nofiya Denbaum-RestrepoARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2022

    In this study we examine the linguistic complexity and lexical properties of the discourse associated with second person singular forms of address (2PS) in the Spanish spoken in Medellín, Colombia. This Spanish variety exhibits the use of a tripartite system of 2PS, in which voseo , tuteo , and ustedeo are used, and sometimes interchanged, according to sociopragmatic factors. By means of a discourse completion task (DCT), 672 responses were colle…