OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Symposium
The 30th 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: March 5th, 2027
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:
Silvina Montrul is Marjorie Roberts professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She is the director of the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab, founder and director of the University Language Academy for Children, and former director of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE). Her research focuses on linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition and bilingualism, with particular emphasis on heritage speakers, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, and the University of Illinois.
She is co-editor of Second Language Research, former Associate Editor of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, and former editorial board member of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. She is author of The Acquisition of Spanish(Benjamins, 2004), Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (Benjamins, 2008), El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante [Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world] (2013, 2026 Wiley-Blackwell), Heritage Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research (with Tania Ionin, Cambridge University Press, 2022), as well as over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. She is co-editor of The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking (2020, John Benjamins), the Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Language and Linguistics (2021), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Morphosyntax and Semantics (2023). In 2023, she received the L. Bloomfield book award from the Linguistics Society of America for her last book and Native Speakers, Interrupted (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In 2025-2026, she received a Fulbright scholar award to conduct research in Brazil.
Nicholas Henriksen is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he co-directs the Speech Production Lab. He earned his PhD in Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics from Indiana University in 2010. His research spans experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, sociophonetics, and second-language speech learning, with a focus on regional varieties of Spanish, including Andalusian, Argentine, and Amazonian Spanish, as well as Afrikaans-Spanish bilingualism in Patagonia. His work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, and the Journal of Sociolinguistics. He was Principal Investigator of “From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of Displacement,” an interdisciplinary Michigan Humanities Collaboratory project. His current research on Andalusian Spanish examines how speakers innovate in their sound system while preserving meaning, as well as the social stigma associated with the regional variety. He also serves as Chair of Michigan's Department of History of Art and Executive Director of Language Learning.
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