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Silvina Montrul is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on language acquisition, bilingualism, and heritage languages within the broader fields of arts and humanities, psychology, and social sciences.

The scientist's work encompasses various subfields such as language and linguistics, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Key topics addressed in their research include syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, multilingual education and policy, language development and disorders, linguistic variation and morphology, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, and second language learning and teaching.

Silvina Montrul has published several papers recently, including:

  • "Heritage Languages: Language Acquired, Language Lost, Language Regained" (2022), published in Annual Review of Linguistics
  • "Representational and Computational Changes in Heritage Language Grammars" (2021), published in Heritage Language Journal
  • "Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers" (2020), published in Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Frequent coauthors in Montrul's research include:

  • Tania Ionin
  • Maria Polinsky
  • Aylin Coşkun Kunduz
  • Andrew Armstrong
  • Nicoleta Bateman

Publishing venues that regularly feature their work include Languages, Bilingualism Language and Cognition, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Cambridge University Press eBooks, and Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics.

Montrul has contributed to several book publications under Cambridge University Press, including:

  • "The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics" (2021)
  • "Native Speakers, Interrupted" (2022)
  • "Second Language Acquisition" (2023)

Best Publications

  • Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

    Silvina A. Montrul

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    Silvina Andrea Montrul

  • Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

    Elabbas Benmamoun;Silvina Montrul;Maria Polinsky

  • Subject and object expression in Spanish heritage speakers: A case of morphosyntactic convergence

    Silvina Montrul

  • Incomplete Acquisition and Attrition of Spanish Tense/Aspect Distinctions in Adult Bilinguals.

    Silvina Montrul

  • Gender Agreement in Adult Second Language Learners and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Effects of Age and Context of Acquisition

    Silvina Montrul;Rebecca Kimberley Foote;Silvia Perpiñán

  • COMPETENCE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NATIVE AND NEAR-NATIVE SPEAKERS: An Investigation of the Preterite-Imperfect Contrast in Spanish

    Silvina Montrul;Roumyana Slabakova

  • Current Issues in Heritage Language Acquisition

    Silvina A Montrul

  • Second language acquisition and first language loss in adult early bilinguals: Exploring some differences and similarities

    Silvina Montrul

  • Knowledge of tense-aspect and mood in Spanish heritage speakers

    Silvina Andrea Montrul

  • Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish-English Bilingual Children:

    Silvina Andrea Montrul;Kim Potowski

  • Differential Object Marking in Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers

    Silvina Montrul;Noelia Sánchez-Walker

  • Is the heritage language like a second language

    Silvina A. Montrul

  • The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English

    Tania Ionin;Silvina Montrul

  • Multiple interfaces and incomplete acquisition

    Silvina Andrea Montrul

  • The acquisition of Spanish

    Silvina A. Montrul

  • El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante

    Silvina Montrul

  • Prolegomena to Heritage Linguistics

    Elabbas Benmamoun;Silvina Montrul;Maria Polinsky

  • TRANSITIVITY ALTERNATIONS IN L2 ACQUISITION Toward a Modular View of Transfer

    Silvina Montrul

  • Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter

    Silvina A. Montrul;Celeste Rodríguez Louro

  • Back to basics: Incomplete knowledge of Differential Object Marking in Spanish heritage speakers*

    Silvina Montrul;Melissa A. Bowles

  • The Oxford handbook of language attrition.

    Monika Schmid;Barbara Köpke;Mirela Cherciov;Tuğba Karayayla

Frequent Co-Authors

Roumyana Slabakova
Roumyana Slabakova University of Southampton
Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park
Lydia White
Lydia White McGill University
Charles Yang
Charles Yang University of Pennsylvania

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