Silvina Andrea Montrul

Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

UIUC

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Silvina Andrea Montrul is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Uiuc.

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Silvina Andrea Montrul

UIUC

Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

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language linguistics second language acquisition language acquisition language learning foreign language acquisition second language learning multilingualism bilingual education general linguistics language development foreign language learning psycholinguistics grammar syntax spanish applied linguistics sociolinguistics language education second language research language variation cross-language perspective child language linguistic theory morphology (linguistics) language teaching language pedagogy language science linguistic diversity syntactic structure cognitive science l2 acquisition heritage language heritage studies endangered languages indigenous languages heritage speakers cognitive linguistics incomplete acquisition cultural heritage language comprehension classroom language differential object marking l2 learners spanish heritage speakers language assessment code-switching lingua franca atypical language development linguistic typology generative linguistics extinct language heritage languages gender agreement heritage language grammars united states heritage science language localisation language culture differential object french language language curriculum language adaptation language loss dominant language language policy phonology morphology family language language transfer language testing cultural heritage management speaker diarization interface (computing) language monitoring interactional linguistics language disorders input factors

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Activating L1-Attrition: A Priming Experiment. Second language Research (2025)

Walther GlodstafSilvina Montrul

second language acquisitioncross-language perspectivebilingual educationsecond language learningforeign language acquisitionpriming experimentava modellanguage acquisitionwithin-language priminglanguage developmentlanguagecognitive sciencesecond language researchlinguisticspsycholinguistics

How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? the Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees. Language Learning (2025)

Aylin Coşkun KunduzSilvina Montrul

bilingual educationlanguagelanguage variationpsycholinguisticssecond language acquisitioncognitive sciencepostpuberty returneessecond language learningmultilingualismforeign language acquisitionsyntaxlanguage acquisitionrelative clausessociolinguisticscross-language perspectivelanguage learningchild languagelanguage sciencelanguage developmentgrammars past pubertylinguistics

Interface Vulnerability in Bilingual Grammars?. Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (2025)

Eider EtxebarriaSilvina Montrul

second language acquisitioncross-language perspectivelanguage learningchild languageforeign language acquisitionsyntaxcode-switchinglanguage acquisitionlanguage developmentlanguageinterface vulnerabilitybilingual grammarslinguisticsbilingual children

Is Structural Priming a Possible Mechanism of Language Change in Heritage Language Grammars? Some Evidence From Accusative Clitic Doubling in Spanish. Bilingualism Language and Cognition (2025)

Irati HurtadoSilvina Montrul

second language acquisitiongeneral linguisticsheritage languagestructural linguisticsstructural primingspanishsyntaxheritage language grammarslanguagelinguistic theorylanguage variationgrammarlinguisticssecond language research

The Impact of L1 Literacy on the Production of Spanish Verbal Passives by School-Age Spanish Heritage Speakers. Frontiers in Language Sciences (2025)

Andrew ArmstrongSilvina Montrul

second language acquisitionbilingual educationlanguage learningchild literacysecond language learningchild languagemultilingualismforeign language acquisitiongender agreementeducationlanguage acquisitionlanguage exposurel1 literacylanguage developmentlanguage

The Role of Determiners in the Processing of Gender Agreement Morphology by Heritage Speakers of Spanish. Languages (2025)

Danny MelendezJill JegerskiSilvina Andrea Montrul

cross-language perspectiveheritage speakerslanguagemultilingualismgender featurelanguage monitoringgender agreement morphologysociolinguisticslanguage assessmentcognitive sciencesecond language researchlinguisticsmorphology (linguistics)psycholinguistics

Chapter 2. the Literacy Enhancement Hypothesis in Bilingual Language Development. Studies in bilingualism (2024)

Silvina MontrulAndrew Armstrong

second language acquisitionbilingual educationliteracy enhancement hypothesislanguage learningsecond language learningliteracy skillschild languageforeign language acquisitionspanishchapter 2language acquisitionatypical language developmentlanguage developmentlanguage educationlanguagelinguisticspsycholinguistics

Complex Knowledge of Complex Sentences: A Review of Passives in Heritage Spanish. Romanica Cracoviensia (2024)

Silvina Montrul

second language acquisitioncomplex sentencesbilingual educationlanguage learningforeign language acquisitioncomplex knowledgelanguage acquisitionlanguage sciencelanguage developmentlanguageheritage languageforeign language learninglinguisticslanguage comprehension

Intergenerational Attrition: Direct or Reverse Language Transmission?. Bilingualism Language and Cognition (2024)

Silvina Montrul

second language acquisitioncross-language perspectivebilingual educationlanguage learningsecond language learningmultilingualismforeign language acquisitionintergenerational attritionlanguage migrationlanguage acquisitionempirical evidencelanguage developmentlanguagelanguage variationlanguage attritionlinguisticspsycholinguistics

Introduction. Routledge eBooks (2024)

Tania IoninSilvina MontrulRoumyana Slabakova

second language acquisitiongeneral linguisticssemanticsmorphology (linguistics)semantic analysis (linguistics)language learninglexiconbrief previewsyntaxsemantic evaluationlinguistic theorylanguagelexical semanticsgrammarlinguisticssecond language research