Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
I was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina and completed my undergraduate university education in Argentina. I received a Masters in English from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. I have been a professor in SUNY-Albany and I came to the University of Illinois last century, in 1999.
I am a Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics.
Education
PhD. McGill University, Montreal
Research Interests
Second language acquisition
bilingualism
heritage language acquisition
Professional Information
Grounded in linguistic theory and using psycholinguistic methodologies,my research explores the following theoretical issues:
- the linguistic nature of interlanguage and bilingual grammars
- the role of the “other” language in the acquisition or loss of a language
- the reasons why some L2 learners/bilinguals reach the level of proficiency and linguistic knowledge of native speakers while others fall short of that level even when optimal conditions for learning are provided,
- the linguistic selectivity of acquisition and loss, or why linguistic “success” or “failure” affects certain grammatical areas (vocabulary, sounds, meaning, verb endings, and discourse) but not others (sentence structure)
- the differences and similarities between linguistic processes attested in second language acquisition and bilingualism and other developmental processes typical of historicallanguage change and first language acquisition.
Honors & Awards
University Scholar 2013
Grants
National Science Foundation, Linguistics and International Programs. PI: Silvina Montrul, Co-PIs: Rakesh Bhatt and Roxana Girju. (Proposal No. BCS-0917593, ARRA). Research project title: Differential Object Marking in Spanish, Hindi and Romanian Heritage Speakers. Amount $303,444 for three years.
Teaching
LING 514 Research Design and Statistics
SPAN 307 Bilingualism
SPAN/LING 588 Seminar in Second Language Acquisition
LING 529: Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
LING 489: Theoretical Foundations of Second Language Acquisition
SPAN 252: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Office Address
University of Illinois
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Office: 4120 Foreign Languages Bldg.
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Research Output
An experimental investigation of differential object marking in Mexican Spanish
Bautista-Maldonado, S. & Montrul, S. A., Feb 27 2019, In : Spanish in Context. 16, 1, p. 22-50 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Attrition, addition, and age
Montrul, S., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Second Language Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter
Case marking in Hindi as the weaker language
Montrul, S., Bhatia, A., Bhatt, R. & Puri, V., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, MAR, 461.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Smaller vocabularies lead to morphological overregularization in heritage language grammars
Montrul, S. A. & Mason, S. A., Jan 1 2019, In : Bilingualism.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
The acquisition of differential object marking in Spanish by Romanian speakers
Montrul, S. A., Jan 1 2019, In : Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada. 32, 1, p. 185-219 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities
Lingua (Journal)
Silvina Andrea Montrul (Editorial board member)2010 → 2015
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
Heritage Language Development
Silvina Andrea Montrul (Keynote speaker)Aug 8 2016
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Age and Experience in Heritage Language Processing
Silvina Andrea Montrul (Keynote speaker)Aug 2016
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (Journal)
Silvina Andrea Montrul (Editor)2010 → 2011
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity