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OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Symposium

 

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The 29th Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL)

OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language.

Dates: Friday, March 27th, 2026

For this conference, we welcome papers in English, Spanish, or Portuguese dealing with any aspect of linguistics in the Hispanic or Lusophone world, including but not limited to: sociolinguistics, language contact, language policy, language and education, creole and indigenous languages, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Spanish, Portuguese, and English can be used during talks. Speakers will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion questions.

 

The organizers of OSUCHiLL are excited to welcome as keynote speakers: 

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Dr. Christina García 

Dr. Christy García is a linguist who graduated from our department in 2015. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Saint Louis University whose research focuses on Phonetics & Phonology and Sociolinguistics. Her main areas of research include sociophonetic variation in Ecuadorian Spanish and the impacts of technology on L2 pronunciation acquisition. She is also committed to developing community outreach and service-learning opportunities for students and serves on a committee that aims to improve language access in St. Louis.

 

Dr. Meghan Armstrong

Dr. Meghan Armstrong is a linguist who graduated from our department in 2012. She is currently an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at UMass Amherst whose work centers on intonation. Her main areas of research are intonational meaning in Spanish, Catalan, and English in both adults and children. More recently, her work involves caretaker and child interactions through a decolonial lens.

 

 

2026 Call for Papers: 

Submission Link: EasyAbstracts

 

2026 Schedule & Information:

Coming soon

 

Registration:

Registration information will be available in February. 

Upon acceptance, presenters will be asked to register for the conference.

Program:

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