Liliana Sánchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liliana Sánchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sánchez |
| SIGNATURE | SANCHEZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0991-5392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A dynamic model of fluctuation and re‐stabilization
Distribution of evidential markers in a Cuzco Quechua corpus
Due to contact, several varieties of Quechua are losing evidential markers. Using a Cuzco Quechua corpus (Macedo et al., 2022), we present the distribution of evidential markers -mi (-n,-ni), -si (-s, -sis), and -chá on discourse connectors (DCs) (Sanchez et. al., 2021) and sentence-level constituents (subject, object, verb, and adverb). To determine how DCs and constituents are marked with evidentiality, we analyze a corpus of semi-structured in…
Genericity expression in child heritage Spanish
The current study investigates the oral production of plural noun phrases (NPs) in subject position in Spanish and English among forty child heritage speakers of Spanish who were raised in the United States. Their results were compared with twenty-four monolingual children of similar ages from Mexico. We elicited determiner use in generic and specific contexts in Spanish and English. Results showed a high level of determiner omission with generic…
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…
Making agricultural supply chains deliver better for women
How can we contribute to making globally integrated supply chains more inclusive and equitable, especially for women? Answering this question requires the concerted and interconnected efforts of va
Structured variation, language experience, and crosslinguistic influence shape child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects
This study investigates child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects. A task designed to elicit direct objects was completed in Spanish and English by 40 child heritage speakers of Spanish in the U.S., and in Spanish by 24 monolingual children in Mexico. Both participant groups varied their direct object forms, following the same ranking: clitics>lexical NPs>omission>doubling. Animate referents promoted clitics; inanimate referents promoted le…
World Health Organization myth busters and indigenous perceptions of Covid-19: Quechua and Shipibo communities
When the COVID (SARS-V2) pandemic swept across the world, it impacted Indigenous communities more than others. This is due to a variety of reasons: socioeconomic injustice and racialization, lack of access to equitable healthcare, and linguistic discrimination. As a result, several communities and community types demonstrated this effect when perceptions of inferences or other COVID-related information were measured. This paper reports on a parti…
Carefully considering the need, precision, and usefulness of classifying bilingual speakers in language shift contexts
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Dominance, Language Experience, and Increased Interaction Effects on the Development of Pragmatic Knowledge in Heritage Bilingual Children: Acceptance of Null and Overt Subjects in Spanish and English
We investigate whether dominance, language experience, and increased interaction have an effect on the development of heritage bilingual children’s knowledge of the discourse-pragmatic constraints guiding null and overt subjects. A group of child heritage bilinguals ( n = 18, mean age = 5;5) and comparison groups of adults: Mexican Spanish monolinguals ( n = 15), heritage bilinguals in the United States ( n = 16), and English monolinguals in the …
Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use
While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish-English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that differences in access (e.g., lexical access) to representations for receptive and productive purposes are at the core of some of the unique characteris…
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…
Me, mi, my: Innovation and variability in heritage speakers’ knowledge of inalienable possession
The present study investigates variability in heritage speakers’ (HSs) knowledge of inalienable possession in Spanish (e.g., me rompí el brazo: ‘I broke my arm’). By testing HSs’ productive and receptive knowledge of this property, the study fills an important gap in the literature and, furthermore, explores whether differences in performance across productive and receptive modalities reflect grammatical innovation at the level of underlying repr…
Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain contexts. The challenge is enhanced when a child is acquiring multiple languages that do not share a one-to-one mapping between their lexical entries with some. Such is the case with some in English and unos and algunos in Spanish. Indeed, Heritage Spanish…
The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax
The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference foun…
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
This chapter provides an overview of generative research on the acquisition of negation by multilingual learners. While early research compared the development of negation in adult L2 learners with L1 children to assess L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar), subsequent studies focused instead on how verbal feature specification influences L2 acquisition of the relative position of negation and verbs. More recently, research on L2 negation has…
Gender Agreement and Assignment in Spanish Heritage Speakers: Does Frequency Matter
Gender has been extensively studied in Spanish heritage speakers. However, lexical frequency effects have yet to be explored in depth. This study aimed to uncover the extent to which lexical frequency affects the acquisition of gender assignment and gender agreement and to account for possible factors behind heritage language variability. Thirty-nine English-dominant heritage speakers of Spanish completed a lexical knowledge screening task (Multi…
Processing DOM in relative clauses: Salience and optionality in early and late bilinguals
Early heritage bilinguals have been repeatedly found to differ from late bilinguals and from monolinguals (e.g., Montrul, 2008 , 2011 ). In the realm of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM), both early heritage bilinguals ( Montrul et al., 2015 ) and late bilinguals (e.g., Bowles & Montrul, 2008 ; Guijarro-Fuentes, 2012 ) exhibit difficulties. DOM in a complex structure such as relative clauses (RCs) provides an ideal setting to differentiat…
Feature variability in the bilingual-monolingual continuum: Clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish, bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in monolingual Limeño Spanish contact varieties
Direct object clitics in Latin American Spanish are subject to great variability in features across dialects. Variability also characterizes bilingual acquisition and especially clitic doubling structures in language contact contexts. We focus on the distribution of clitics and Differential Object Marking (DOM) in clitic doubling structures among Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals, Quechua-Spanish bilinguals, and monolingual speakers of Spanish in contac…
Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars
In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars-both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units-are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with alternative explanations for the steady-state representation of these grammars that suggest truncated acquisition or erosion are the primary culprits of perceived language loss. In production and comprehension processe…
Bilingual Alignments
The issue of how to distinguish bilingual syntactic representations from processing preferences or strategies is addressed by postulating the concept of permeable bilingual alignments as memory storage devices that include information from different language components. Supporting evidence from phenomena such as the emergence of innovative mappings across different components (phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, and information structure)…
Linguistic attitudes toward Shipibo in Cantagallo: Reshaping indigenous language and identity in an urban setting
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…
Typological Differences in Morphological Patterns, Gender Features, and Thematic Structure in the L2 Acquisition of Ashaninka Spanish
It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013). In this study, we explore three challenging aspects of the morphology of Spanish among advanced L1 Ashaninka-L2 Spanish speakers: (i) the acquisition of proclitics and enclitics with inflected verbs; (ii) the distribution of accu…
The dynamic nature of bilingualism
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The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children
Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos . Given documented cross-linguistic influence in interface phenomena in bilinguals, we asked whether young Spanish-English bilinguals calculate SIs with algunos , or if …
Deverbal Noun Complementation Rules Applied to Semantic Role Labeling
Este trabalho apresenta um método de etiquetagem de papéis semânticos em predicações nominalizadas. O método evita o problema da não disponibilidade de recursos computacionais robustos para o português, explorando a correspondência sistemática entre as estruturas argumentais de verbos e das nominalizações correspondentes, e utilizando a Web como corpus para inferir probabilisticamente a delimitação dos argumentos e suas relações gramaticais dentr…
Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars
In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars-both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units-are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with alternative explanations for the steady-state representation of these grammars that suggest truncated acquisition or erosion are the primary culprits of perceived language loss. In production and comprehension processe…
Gender Agreement and Assignment in Spanish Heritage Speakers: Does Frequency Matter
Gender has been extensively studied in Spanish heritage speakers. However, lexical frequency effects have yet to be explored in depth. This study aimed to uncover the extent to which lexical frequency affects the acquisition of gender assignment and gender agreement and to account for possible factors behind heritage language variability. Thirty-nine English-dominant heritage speakers of Spanish completed a lexical knowledge screening task (Multi…
Bilingual Alignments
The issue of how to distinguish bilingual syntactic representations from processing preferences or strategies is addressed by postulating the concept of permeable bilingual alignments as memory storage devices that include information from different language components. Supporting evidence from phenomena such as the emergence of innovative mappings across different components (phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, and information structure)…
Convergence in syntax/morphology mapping strategies: Evidence from Quechua-Spanish code mixing
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Variation in accusative clitic doubling across three Spanish dialects
Typological Differences in Morphological Patterns, Gender Features, and Thematic Structure in the L2 Acquisition of Ashaninka Spanish
It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013). In this study, we explore three challenging aspects of the morphology of Spanish among advanced L1 Ashaninka-L2 Spanish speakers: (i) the acquisition of proclitics and enclitics with inflected verbs; (ii) the distribution of accu…
The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax
The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference foun…
Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the development of these structures in Spanish more than that of negative sentences. While the children in this stu…
Shipibo-Spanish: Differences in residual transfer at the syntax-morphology and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces
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…
Making agricultural supply chains deliver better for women
How can we contribute to making globally integrated supply chains more inclusive and equitable, especially for women? Answering this question requires the concerted and interconnected efforts of va
Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use
While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish-English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that differences in access (e.g., lexical access) to representations for receptive and productive purposes are at the core of some of the unique characteris…
Contact and contracting Spanish
This investigation is inspired by an interest in the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and, in particular, what their linguistic performance reveals of their knowledge of lexical subclasses and discursive properties associated with ordering of sentential constituents in the Spanish language. Analysis of data obtained for 24 participants on diverse m…
Kechwa and Spanish Bilingual Grammars: Testing Hypotheses on Functional Interference and Convergence
This paper presents an exploratory study on cross-linguistic interference among indigenous Kechwa1–Spanish bilingual children (n=30) living in a language contact situation. Its preliminary findings show evidence of cross-linguistic interference between Kechwa desiderative progressive forms such as miku-naya-yka-n (eat-desprog-3) ‘S/he wants to/is about to eat’ and bilingual Spanish modal progressive structures such as está queriendo comer ‘wants …
Shipibo-Spanish: Differences in residual transfer at the syntax-morphology and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces
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…
Mexican Indigenous Languages at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century edited by Margarita Hidalgo
Convergence in syntax/morphology mapping strategies: Evidence from Quechua-Spanish code mixing
What’s so incomplete about incomplete acquisition: A prolegomenon to modeling heritage language grammars
Modeling the competence grammar of heritage speakers who exhibit low proficiency in their L1 represents a significant challenge for generative and experimental approaches to bilingual linguistic research. In this paper we revisit the core tenets of the incomplete acquisition hypothesis as developed in recent scholarship (in particular by Montrul (2002 et seq.) and Polinsky (1997 , 2006 )). Although we adopt many of these fundamental aspects of th…
Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the development of these structures in Spanish more than that of negative sentences. While the children in this stu…
Variation in accusative clitic doubling across three Spanish dialects
The dynamic nature of bilingualism
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The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children
Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos . Given documented cross-linguistic influence in interface phenomena in bilinguals, we asked whether young Spanish-English bilinguals calculate SIs with algunos , or if …
Deverbal Noun Complementation Rules Applied to Semantic Role Labeling
Este trabalho apresenta um método de etiquetagem de papéis semânticos em predicações nominalizadas. O método evita o problema da não disponibilidade de recursos computacionais robustos para o português, explorando a correspondência sistemática entre as estruturas argumentais de verbos e das nominalizações correspondentes, e utilizando a Web como corpus para inferir probabilisticamente a delimitação dos argumentos e suas relações gramaticais dentr…
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Linguistic attitudes toward Shipibo in Cantagallo: Reshaping indigenous language and identity in an urban setting
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…
Typological Differences in Morphological Patterns, Gender Features, and Thematic Structure in the L2 Acquisition of Ashaninka Spanish
It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013). In this study, we explore three challenging aspects of the morphology of Spanish among advanced L1 Ashaninka-L2 Spanish speakers: (i) the acquisition of proclitics and enclitics with inflected verbs; (ii) the distribution of accu…
Processing DOM in relative clauses: Salience and optionality in early and late bilinguals
Early heritage bilinguals have been repeatedly found to differ from late bilinguals and from monolinguals (e.g., Montrul, 2008 , 2011 ). In the realm of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM), both early heritage bilinguals ( Montrul et al., 2015 ) and late bilinguals (e.g., Bowles & Montrul, 2008 ; Guijarro-Fuentes, 2012 ) exhibit difficulties. DOM in a complex structure such as relative clauses (RCs) provides an ideal setting to differentiat…
Feature variability in the bilingual-monolingual continuum: Clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish, bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in monolingual Limeño Spanish contact varieties
Direct object clitics in Latin American Spanish are subject to great variability in features across dialects. Variability also characterizes bilingual acquisition and especially clitic doubling structures in language contact contexts. We focus on the distribution of clitics and Differential Object Marking (DOM) in clitic doubling structures among Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals, Quechua-Spanish bilinguals, and monolingual speakers of Spanish in contac…
Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars
In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars-both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units-are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with alternative explanations for the steady-state representation of these grammars that suggest truncated acquisition or erosion are the primary culprits of perceived language loss. In production and comprehension processe…
Bilingual Alignments
The issue of how to distinguish bilingual syntactic representations from processing preferences or strategies is addressed by postulating the concept of permeable bilingual alignments as memory storage devices that include information from different language components. Supporting evidence from phenomena such as the emergence of innovative mappings across different components (phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, and information structure)…
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
This chapter provides an overview of generative research on the acquisition of negation by multilingual learners. While early research compared the development of negation in adult L2 learners with L1 children to assess L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar), subsequent studies focused instead on how verbal feature specification influences L2 acquisition of the relative position of negation and verbs. More recently, research on L2 negation has…
Gender Agreement and Assignment in Spanish Heritage Speakers: Does Frequency Matter
Gender has been extensively studied in Spanish heritage speakers. However, lexical frequency effects have yet to be explored in depth. This study aimed to uncover the extent to which lexical frequency affects the acquisition of gender assignment and gender agreement and to account for possible factors behind heritage language variability. Thirty-nine English-dominant heritage speakers of Spanish completed a lexical knowledge screening task (Multi…
Me, mi, my: Innovation and variability in heritage speakers’ knowledge of inalienable possession
The present study investigates variability in heritage speakers’ (HSs) knowledge of inalienable possession in Spanish (e.g., me rompí el brazo: ‘I broke my arm’). By testing HSs’ productive and receptive knowledge of this property, the study fills an important gap in the literature and, furthermore, explores whether differences in performance across productive and receptive modalities reflect grammatical innovation at the level of underlying repr…
Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain contexts. The challenge is enhanced when a child is acquiring multiple languages that do not share a one-to-one mapping between their lexical entries with some. Such is the case with some in English and unos and algunos in Spanish. Indeed, Heritage Spanish…
The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax
The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference foun…
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…
Structured variation, language experience, and crosslinguistic influence shape child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects
This study investigates child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects. A task designed to elicit direct objects was completed in Spanish and English by 40 child heritage speakers of Spanish in the U.S., and in Spanish by 24 monolingual children in Mexico. Both participant groups varied their direct object forms, following the same ranking: clitics>lexical NPs>omission>doubling. Animate referents promoted clitics; inanimate referents promoted le…
Linguistics (28 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 works) · Language Development and Disorders (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (11 works) · Heritage language (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (7 works)