Research Interests:

Syntax, bilingualism, language contact (convergence and attrition), language variation.

Research Opportunities:

Research Opportunities: Students interested in assisting with on-going projects on phonetic and syntactic convergence in bilingual speech should contact Professor Toribio or Professor Bullock.

Recent Publications:

Refereed Journals

Co-author. Jensen, Leif, Cohen, Jeffrey H., Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, DeJong, Gordon F., and Rodríguez, "Leila. Ethnic identities, language and economic outcomes among Dominicans in a new destination." Social Science Quarterly 87: 1088-1099.

Co-author. Zapata, Gabriela, Sánchez, Liliana, and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2005. "Contact and contracting Spanish." International Journal of Bilingualism 3-4, 377-395.

Co-author. Bullock, Barbara E. and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. "Convergence as an emergent property in bilingual speech." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7, 91-93.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. "Convergence as an optimization strategy of bilingual speech: Evidence from code-switching. " Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7, 165-173.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. "Spanish-English speech practices: Bringing chaos to order." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7, 133-154.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2003. "The social significance of language loyalty among Black and White Dominicans in New York." The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe 27.1, 3-11.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2003."Spanish-English code-switching among US Latinos." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 158, 89-119.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2001. "Accessing Spanish-English code-switching competence." International Journal of Bilingualism 5, 403-436.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2001. "On the emergence of code-switching competence." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 4, 203-231.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Language variation and the linguistic enactment of identity among Dominicans." Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 38, 1133-1159.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Setting parametric limits on dialectal variation in Spanish." Lingua 110, 315-341.

Editorship

Co-editor. Sagarra, Nuria and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2006. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Co-editor. Bullock, Barbara E. and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. Guest editors, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7.2. Special issue: Bilingualism and linguistic convergence.

Parts of Books (Invited and Refereed)

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2006. "Linguistic displays of identity among Dominicans in national and diasporic settlements." In English and Ethnicity, C. Davies and J. Brutt-Griffler (eds.). New York: Palgrave.

Co-author. Bullock, Barbara E. and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2006. "Intra-system variability and change in nominal and verbal morphology." In Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives, R. Gess and D. Arteaga (eds.)," 305-325. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Co-author. Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline and Nye, Carlos. (2006). "Restructuring of reverse psychological predicate in bilingual Spanish." In New Perspectives in Romance Linguistics. J. Montreuil and C. Nishida (eds.), 263-277. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Co-author. Bullock, Barbara E., Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline, Davis, Kristopher Allen and Botero, Christopher G. 2004. "Phonetic convergence in bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish." WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, V. Chand, A. Kelleher, A. Rodríguez, and B. Schmeiser (eds.), 113-125. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Co-author. Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline, Bullock, Barbara E., Botero, Christopher G. and Davis, Kristopher Allen. 2004. "Perseverative effects in bilingual code-switching." In Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Romance Linguistics, R. Gess and E. Rubin (eds.), 291-306. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. "Spanish/English speech practices: Bringing chaos to order." In Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy, J. Brutt-Griffler and M. Varghese (eds.), 41-62. Multilingual Matters. (Book version of special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism)

Co-author. Sánchez, Liliana and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2003. "Current Issues in the Generative Study of Spanish Second Language Syntax." In Studies in Spanish Second Language Acquisition: The State of the Science, B. Lafford and R. Salaberry (eds.), 189-232. Georgetown University Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2003. "Minority perspectives on language: Mexican and Mexican-American attitudes towards Spanish and English." In Mi lengua: Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, A. Roca and C. Colombi (eds.), 154-169. Georgetown University Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2002. "Focus on clefts in Dominican Spanish." In Structure, Meaning, and Acquisition in Spanish, J. Lee, K. Geeslin, and J.C. Clements (eds.), 130-146. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Co-author. Hammer, Carol, Miccio, Adele and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2002. "Linguistics and speech-language pathology: Combining research efforts towards improved language interventions for bilingual children." In Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000: Linguistics, language, and the professions, J. Alatis, H. Hamilton, and A.-H. Tan (eds.), 234-250. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2001. "Minimalist ideas on parametric variation." In North East Linguistics Society 30, M. Hirotani, A. Coetzle, N. Hall, J.-Y. Kim (eds.), 627-638. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Code-switching and minority language attrition." In Spanish Applied Linguistics at the turn of the Millennium, R. Leow and C. Sanz (eds.), 174-193. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Once upon a time en un lugar muy lejanoŠSpanish-English code-switching patterns across narratives." In Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Issues and Challenges, A. Roca (ed.), 184-203. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Nosotros somos dominicanos: Language and social differentiation among Dominicans." In Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Issues and Challenges, A. Roca (ed.), 252-270. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Spanglish?! Bite your tongue! Spanish-English code-switching among Latinos." Reflexiones 1999, R. Flores (ed.), 115-147. Austin, TX: Center for Mexican American Studies.

Review Articles and Book Notices

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2006. Review article of Contact linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes, C. Myers-Scotton, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21: 411-414.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2002. Review article of Bilingual speech: A typology of codemixing, P. Muysken. (2001), International Journal of Bilingualism, 91-94.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Book Notice of A.Y. Durgunoglu and L. Verhoeven, eds. (1998), Literacy development in a multilingual context." Language 77, 413-414.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. Review article, Slips of the tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production, N. Poulisse (1999), Journal of Linguistics 37, 439-444.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2000. "Research directions in second language acquisition." Review article, Handbook of second language acquisition." W. Ritchie and T. Bhatia, eds. (1996), World Englishes 19, 251-254.

Manuscripts Accepted For Publication

Co-author. Anderson, Tyler and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. "Attitudes towards borrowing versus code-switching." Spanish in Context.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. "Spanish/English Contact." The Hispanic Encyclopedia of Education. L. Soto (ed.), Greenwood Press.

Co-author. Bullock, Barbara E. and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. "Dominican Spanish in the United States: The language and its speakers." In Increasing Language Diversity in Linguistic Courses: Practical Approaches and Materials, M. DiPaolo and A. Spears (eds.). Ohio State University Press.

Manuscripts Invited

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. "Code-switching and code-shifting: Sociolinguistic and sociopsychological perspectives and findings." In Language allegiances and bilingualism in the U.S., R. Salaberry (ed.). Multilingual Matters. In preparation.

Co-author. Bullock, Barbara E. and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. Kreyol incursions into Dominican Spanish: The percept of Haitianized speech among Dominicans." In Linguistic identity and bilingualism, M. Niño-Murcia and J. Rothman (eds.), John Benjamins Publishers. In preparation.

Editorial Projects

Bullock, Barbara and Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. The Handbook of Code-switching. In preparation. Cambridge University Press. In progress.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline, guest editor. Lingua. Special issue: Formal approaches to code-switching. In progress.