Jocelyn Camacho
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 152144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jocelyn Camacho |
| PRENOMES | Jocelyn |
| SOBRENOME | Camacho |
| ASSINATURA | CAMACHO J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6349-0404 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Evidentiality and focus in Colombian Spanish
This paper addresses matrix declarative sentences with the evidential markers dizque and como que in Colombian Spanish. We concentrate on cases where these evidentials combine with both clausal- and subclausal constituents, and provide a unified analysis that likens them to focus-sensitive items, such as Spanish solo ‘only’. We thus argue that dizque and como que are mixed elements combining evidentiality and focus marking. We further discuss que…
Number-specification in numeral 'cien'
Numbers express the primary concept of cardinality, the measure of the number of elements in a set that answers the question how many? Linguistically, they are conveyed through simple (dos ‘two’) or complex (doscientos ‘two hundred’). Although numerals higher than 1 are inherently plural, plurality only overtly appears on cien ‘hundred’ and millón ‘million’ and only when the numeral is part of a multiplicative number (doscientas sillas ‘two hundr…
Pronombres clíticos y género en español en contacto con shipibo-konibo, asháninka y ashéninka del Perené
This article presents an overview of previous studies on the direct object pronominal system of Spanish in contact with Shipibo-konibo, Asháninka, and Perené Ashéninka. Evidence shows the acquisition of proclitic pronouns in all varieties in contact examined. It also shows a preference for the use of the pronoun le, and in the specific case of Spanish in contact with Shipibo-konibo, data indicate a certain level of gender neutralization evident i…
Spiderwoman/ mujer araña
This paper tests the hypothesis that N-N combinations (N-N word compounds and phrasal compounds) share a common underlying structural symmetry that needs to be dissolved through movement of one of the nouns. Certain types of N-N combinations are in complementary distribution in Spanish and English: N-N compounds are more productive in English, N-preposition-N compounds more productive in Spanish, and certain N-N compounds with the meaning of coor…
The Distribution of Manner and Frequency Adverbs in Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish
We investigate the acquisition of adverb placement in Spanish among school-age child heritage speakers of Spanish born and raised in the US by Mexican parents. We examine frequency and manner adverbs with negative and positive polarity and the potential role of cross-linguistic influence, dominance, and experience in the path and rate of development. Fourteen child heritage speakers of Spanish born and raised in the US and twenty-five Spanish mon…
Foreign-born arrestees and recidivism
Paradigmatic Uniformity
Subject-verb agreement mismatches have been reported in the L2 and heritage literature, usually involving infinitives, analyzed as default morphological forms for fully specified T-heads. This article explores the mechanisms behind these mismatches, testing two hypotheses: the default form and the surface-similarity hypotheses. It compares non-finite and finite S-V mismatches with subjects with different persons, testing whether similarity with o…
Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages. We present a study that explores the differences between gender agreement between a determiner and a noun and gender agreement between clitics and antecedents or doubled DPs among Shipibo-Spanish s…
Failed gender agreement in L1 English L2 Spanish
A recent proposal attributes morphosyntactic issues in L2 to lexical factors (Grüter et al. 2012; Hopp 2013). According to this lexical account, issues with gender agreement are caused by gender assignment issues – a failure to assign a word to a target-like class. We elaborate on this idea by exploring three potential cues to gender assignment: 1) semantic gender relating to sex (e.g. ‘girl’ vs. ‘boy’) 2) morphophonological cues, and 3) morphosy…
The structure of plural last names in Spanish and other languages
An associative plural functional head is proposed for Spanish plural last names. Spanish plural last name noun phrases appear with a plural determiner and a singular or plural noun. Last names marked as singular are interpreted as a group, whereas plural ones are interpreted as collection of individuals (additive reading), although both pattern like fully plural DPs. Based on a comparison with first names, I propose that last names involve a null…
Can You Make Better Decisions If You Are Bilingual
Studies have shown that "framing bias," a phenomenon in which two different presentations of the same decision-making problem provoke different answers, is reduced in a foreign language (the Foreign Language effect, FLe). Three explanations have emerged to account for the difference. First, the cognitive enhancement hypothesis states that lower proficiency in the FL leads to more deliberate processing, reducing the framing bias. Second, contradic…
Social Media Users' Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video
On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a Black woman, was pulled over by Officer Brian Encinia for failure to signal a lane change in Prairie View, TX. An altercation ensued and Bland was arrested and jailed. Three days later, her body was found in her jail cell and the week following, the dash camera footage was released of her controversial stop and arrest. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis based on a triangulated sample of social media posts i…
Linguistic attitudes toward Shipibo in Cantagallo
Aims and objectives: This study aims to explore language attitudes among speakers of Shipibo, an Amazonian indigenous language from the Panoan family, in the community of Cantagallo in the city of Lima, an urban, Spanish-dominant environment. The study is motivated by the paucity of studies on language attitudes in urban indigenous communities. The Cantagallo Shipibo community was settled in the early 2000s and temporarily relocated in 2017. Meth…
The Interpretation of Adjective-N Sequences in Spanish Heritage
Adjectives appear predominantly postnominally in Spanish, and when prenominal, cannot be interpreted as restrictive. We explore whether heritage speakers of Spanish have the same interpretive and ordering restriction as monolinguals. Twenty-two US college-age heritage speakers and 17 college-age monolinguals from Peru completed a rating task that manipulated word order and interpretation. Items varied in word order (Adj-N/N-Adj) and interpretatio…
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
Switch Reference and Obviation
Many of the world's languages track constituents across clauses using switch‐reference morphemes. These markers convey information about whether arguments in each clause have the same referent ( same subject ) or different referents ( different subject ). Switch‐reference morphemes tend to appear attached to a verbal head, although they track arguments in two separate clauses. Additionally, switch‐reference morphemes may indicate how the temporal…
Null Subjects
The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic overview of null subjects, José Camacho reviews t…
Chinese-type pro in a Romance-type null-subject language
Shipibo-Spanish
In this article, we present a study that tests the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006) at the syntax—pragmatics interface and its possible extension to the syntax—morphology interface in two groups of first language (L1) speakers of Shipibo with different levels of formal instruction in Spanish as a second language (L2). Shipibo is a mixed null subject language that only allows third person null subjects and has no person morphology o…
On case concord
A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and Their Families
We evaluated a community-based participatory research worksite intervention intended to improve farmworkers' behaviors at work and after work to reduce occupational and take-home pesticide exposures. The workers received warm water and soap for hand washing, gloves, coveralls, and education. Self-reported assessments before and after the intervention revealed that glove use, wearing clean work clothes, and hand washing at the midday break and bef…
Syntactic Variation
This paper traces formulations of variation in Generative Grammar by analyzing an increasing tendency to have overt subject changes in Dominican Spanish (DS) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Changes start by an increase in the frequency of overt pronominals that triggers a reorganization of the pronouns’ lexical entries. Two alternative paths of change are suggested: a) higher frequency can lead to pronominals with possible arbitrary interpretation…
Wh-Doubling
January 01 2002 Wh-Doubling: Implications for the Syntax of Wh-Movement José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (1): 157–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438902317382206 Cite Icon Cite Permissi…
Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination
April 01 2000 Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination In Special Collection: CogNet José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2000 Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31 (2): 366–375. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2000.31.2.366 …
From SOV to SVO
This paper analyses the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final L1 (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) in a naturalistic setting. It proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having null objects with definite/specific antecedents and a feature triggering object movement for sentential focus. The…
Null Subjects
The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic overview of null subjects, José Camacho reviews t…
On case concord
From SOV to SVO
This paper analyses the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final L1 (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) in a naturalistic setting. It proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having null objects with definite/specific antecedents and a feature triggering object movement for sentential focus. The…
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and Their Families
We evaluated a community-based participatory research worksite intervention intended to improve farmworkers' behaviors at work and after work to reduce occupational and take-home pesticide exposures. The workers received warm water and soap for hand washing, gloves, coveralls, and education. Self-reported assessments before and after the intervention revealed that glove use, wearing clean work clothes, and hand washing at the midday break and bef…
Wh-Doubling
January 01 2002 Wh-Doubling: Implications for the Syntax of Wh-Movement José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (1): 157–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438902317382206 Cite Icon Cite Permissi…
The Interpretation of Adjective-N Sequences in Spanish Heritage
Adjectives appear predominantly postnominally in Spanish, and when prenominal, cannot be interpreted as restrictive. We explore whether heritage speakers of Spanish have the same interpretive and ordering restriction as monolinguals. Twenty-two US college-age heritage speakers and 17 college-age monolinguals from Peru completed a rating task that manipulated word order and interpretation. Items varied in word order (Adj-N/N-Adj) and interpretatio…
Shipibo-Spanish
In this article, we present a study that tests the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006) at the syntax—pragmatics interface and its possible extension to the syntax—morphology interface in two groups of first language (L1) speakers of Shipibo with different levels of formal instruction in Spanish as a second language (L2). Shipibo is a mixed null subject language that only allows third person null subjects and has no person morphology o…
Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination
April 01 2000 Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination In Special Collection: CogNet José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2000 Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31 (2): 366–375. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2000.31.2.366 …
From SOV to SVO
This paper analyses the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final L1 (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) in a naturalistic setting. It proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having null objects with definite/specific antecedents and a feature triggering object movement for sentential focus. The…
Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination
April 01 2000 Structural Restrictions on Comitative Coordination In Special Collection: CogNet José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2000 Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31 (2): 366–375. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2000.31.2.366 …
Wh-Doubling
January 01 2002 Wh-Doubling: Implications for the Syntax of Wh-Movement José Camacho José Camacho Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information José Camacho Rutgers University Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Linguistic Inquiry (2002) 33 (1): 157–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438902317382206 Cite Icon Cite Permissi…
Syntactic Variation
This paper traces formulations of variation in Generative Grammar by analyzing an increasing tendency to have overt subject changes in Dominican Spanish (DS) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Changes start by an increase in the frequency of overt pronominals that triggers a reorganization of the pronouns’ lexical entries. Two alternative paths of change are suggested: a) higher frequency can lead to pronominals with possible arbitrary interpretation…
A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and Their Families
We evaluated a community-based participatory research worksite intervention intended to improve farmworkers' behaviors at work and after work to reduce occupational and take-home pesticide exposures. The workers received warm water and soap for hand washing, gloves, coveralls, and education. Self-reported assessments before and after the intervention revealed that glove use, wearing clean work clothes, and hand washing at the midday break and bef…
Shipibo-Spanish
In this article, we present a study that tests the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006) at the syntax—pragmatics interface and its possible extension to the syntax—morphology interface in two groups of first language (L1) speakers of Shipibo with different levels of formal instruction in Spanish as a second language (L2). Shipibo is a mixed null subject language that only allows third person null subjects and has no person morphology o…
On case concord
Chinese-type pro in a Romance-type null-subject language
Null Subjects
The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic overview of null subjects, José Camacho reviews t…
Switch Reference and Obviation
Many of the world's languages track constituents across clauses using switch‐reference morphemes. These markers convey information about whether arguments in each clause have the same referent ( same subject ) or different referents ( different subject ). Switch‐reference morphemes tend to appear attached to a verbal head, although they track arguments in two separate clauses. Additionally, switch‐reference morphemes may indicate how the temporal…
Linguistic attitudes toward Shipibo in Cantagallo
Aims and objectives: This study aims to explore language attitudes among speakers of Shipibo, an Amazonian indigenous language from the Panoan family, in the community of Cantagallo in the city of Lima, an urban, Spanish-dominant environment. The study is motivated by the paucity of studies on language attitudes in urban indigenous communities. The Cantagallo Shipibo community was settled in the early 2000s and temporarily relocated in 2017. Meth…
The Interpretation of Adjective-N Sequences in Spanish Heritage
Adjectives appear predominantly postnominally in Spanish, and when prenominal, cannot be interpreted as restrictive. We explore whether heritage speakers of Spanish have the same interpretive and ordering restriction as monolinguals. Twenty-two US college-age heritage speakers and 17 college-age monolinguals from Peru completed a rating task that manipulated word order and interpretation. Items varied in word order (Adj-N/N-Adj) and interpretatio…
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
Social Media Users' Interpretations of the Sandra Bland Arrest Video
On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a Black woman, was pulled over by Officer Brian Encinia for failure to signal a lane change in Prairie View, TX. An altercation ensued and Bland was arrested and jailed. Three days later, her body was found in her jail cell and the week following, the dash camera footage was released of her controversial stop and arrest. Utilizing a qualitative content analysis based on a triangulated sample of social media posts i…
Failed gender agreement in L1 English L2 Spanish
A recent proposal attributes morphosyntactic issues in L2 to lexical factors (Grüter et al. 2012; Hopp 2013). According to this lexical account, issues with gender agreement are caused by gender assignment issues – a failure to assign a word to a target-like class. We elaborate on this idea by exploring three potential cues to gender assignment: 1) semantic gender relating to sex (e.g. ‘girl’ vs. ‘boy’) 2) morphophonological cues, and 3) morphosy…
The structure of plural last names in Spanish and other languages
An associative plural functional head is proposed for Spanish plural last names. Spanish plural last name noun phrases appear with a plural determiner and a singular or plural noun. Last names marked as singular are interpreted as a group, whereas plural ones are interpreted as collection of individuals (additive reading), although both pattern like fully plural DPs. Based on a comparison with first names, I propose that last names involve a null…
Can You Make Better Decisions If You Are Bilingual
Studies have shown that "framing bias," a phenomenon in which two different presentations of the same decision-making problem provoke different answers, is reduced in a foreign language (the Foreign Language effect, FLe). Three explanations have emerged to account for the difference. First, the cognitive enhancement hypothesis states that lower proficiency in the FL leads to more deliberate processing, reducing the framing bias. Second, contradic…
Foreign-born arrestees and recidivism
Paradigmatic Uniformity
Subject-verb agreement mismatches have been reported in the L2 and heritage literature, usually involving infinitives, analyzed as default morphological forms for fully specified T-heads. This article explores the mechanisms behind these mismatches, testing two hypotheses: the default form and the surface-similarity hypotheses. It compares non-finite and finite S-V mismatches with subjects with different persons, testing whether similarity with o…
Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages. We present a study that explores the differences between gender agreement between a determiner and a noun and gender agreement between clitics and antecedents or doubled DPs among Shipibo-Spanish s…
The Distribution of Manner and Frequency Adverbs in Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish
We investigate the acquisition of adverb placement in Spanish among school-age child heritage speakers of Spanish born and raised in the US by Mexican parents. We examine frequency and manner adverbs with negative and positive polarity and the potential role of cross-linguistic influence, dominance, and experience in the path and rate of development. Fourteen child heritage speakers of Spanish born and raised in the US and twenty-five Spanish mon…
Spiderwoman/ mujer araña
This paper tests the hypothesis that N-N combinations (N-N word compounds and phrasal compounds) share a common underlying structural symmetry that needs to be dissolved through movement of one of the nouns. Certain types of N-N combinations are in complementary distribution in Spanish and English: N-N compounds are more productive in English, N-preposition-N compounds more productive in Spanish, and certain N-N compounds with the meaning of coor…
Evidentiality and focus in Colombian Spanish
This paper addresses matrix declarative sentences with the evidential markers dizque and como que in Colombian Spanish. We concentrate on cases where these evidentials combine with both clausal- and subclausal constituents, and provide a unified analysis that likens them to focus-sensitive items, such as Spanish solo ‘only’. We thus argue that dizque and como que are mixed elements combining evidentiality and focus marking. We further discuss que…
Number-specification in numeral 'cien'
Numbers express the primary concept of cardinality, the measure of the number of elements in a set that answers the question how many? Linguistically, they are conveyed through simple (dos ‘two’) or complex (doscientos ‘two hundred’). Although numerals higher than 1 are inherently plural, plurality only overtly appears on cien ‘hundred’ and millón ‘million’ and only when the numeral is part of a multiplicative number (doscientas sillas ‘two hundr…
Pronombres clíticos y género en español en contacto con shipibo-konibo, asháninka y ashéninka del Perené
This article presents an overview of previous studies on the direct object pronominal system of Spanish in contact with Shipibo-konibo, Asháninka, and Perené Ashéninka. Evidence shows the acquisition of proclitic pronouns in all varieties in contact examined. It also shows a preference for the use of the pronoun le, and in the specific case of Spanish in contact with Shipibo-konibo, data indicate a certain level of gender neutralization evident i…
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