Publications

(2020). Accepted. Vulnerability of clitics and articles in bilingual development: Age meets proficiency. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

(2019). ``Restrictions on ordering of adjectives in Spanish''.

(2018). Restrictions on ordering of adjectives in Spanish. Leaving obligations behind: epistemic incrementation in preschool English. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts.

(2018). Los fantasmas de mis casas. Claridad.

(2018). El retorno del rey. Claridad.

(2018). Hijo y nieto de piratas. Claridad.

(2018). The perception and interpretation of sentence types by L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (Online first).

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(2018). The cup on the table is green: Children's comprehension of embedded PPs.. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 42.

(2018). Strong continuity and children's development of NP recursion.. Recursion in Brazilian languages and beyond.

(2018). On Recursive Modification in Child L1 French. Languages.

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(2018). Direct objects and language acquisition. Cambridge.

(2018). A way into recursion. UMOP 41: Thoughts on Mind and Grammar (T.O.M. and grammar): A Festschrift in Honor of Tom Roeper.

(2018). A way into recursion. UMOP 41: Thoughts on Mind and Grammar (T.O.M. and grammar): A Festschrift in Honor of Tom Roeper.

(2017). Se buscan carpinteros. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2017). Museo de la Resistencia. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2017). El camino del gigante. Claridad.

(2017). Down two steps: Are bilinguals delayed in the acquisition of recursively embedded PPs?. Matraga-Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UERJ.

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(2017). Crossing Branches: The Challenge of Acquiring Recursive Nominal Structures in L2 Acquisition. Proceedings of Canadian Linguistics Association 2017.

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(2017). Clitics as input to the acquisition of verbal transitivity in French. Lingvisticæ Investigationes.

(2016). Poster presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Georgetown University..

(2016). Relatively over-elaborated: Children's use of relative clauses in recursive modification. Paper presented at the conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALANA).

(2016). Bilingual Effects in Recursive Noun Phrases. Paper presented at the Complexity in Acquisition Workshop, University of Toronto.

(2016). The expression of genericity in child language. Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics.

(2016). Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: a study of" no creo que". Borealis–An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics.

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(2016). In search of the perfect tense. Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana Liceras..

(2016). Adquisición del español como lengua materna. Enciclopedia de lingüı́stica hispánica.

(2015). The sum is more than its parts: Acquisition of clitic clusters in Spanish. Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.

(2015). Structural Complexity and the Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs. Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.

(2015). Del desorden habitual de las cosas. San Juan.

(2014). Children's acquisition of complex modification. Boston University Conference on Language Development 39.

(2014). Language dominance and codeswitching asymmetries. Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching.

(2014). How children learn to detect and interpret agreement morphology: A crosslinguistic perspective. Lingua: International review of general linguistics.

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(2014). Bilingual effects: Exploring object omission in pronominal languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

(2013). In search of the present perfect.

(2013). The role of semantic transfer in clitic drop among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

(2013). On the development of null implicit objects in L1 English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

(2013). Comparing second language learners to other populations: Age, transfer, and learnability. Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition.

(2012). Pollito chicken. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2012). La tormenta y la gracia. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2012). The acquisition of NP recursion in English-speaking children. BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(2012). Clitic production across tasks in young French-speaking children. BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(2011). The acquisition of NP recursion in English-speaking children. University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 36).

(2011). Hanmi Handachi. Aikido Shugyo News.

(2011). En camino al reino escondido. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2011). De cerca y de lejos. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2011). Las abuelas africanas. Claridad, Puerto Rico.

(2011). Montañas sin historias. Claridad, Puerto Rico.

(2011). El filo de La cuchilla. Claridad, Puerto Rico.

(2011). What I don't understand about interfaces. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

(2011). Topicalization and object omission in child language. First Language.

(2011). On the intricacy of children's innate abstractions. Infancia y Aprendizaje.

(2011). Language typology and the acquisition of bare noun/DP contrasts. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

(2011). Jij doe wat girafe?: Wh-movement and inversion in Dutch-French bilingual children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

(2011). Input and parental attitudes: A look at Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto. Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies.

(2011). El Minotauro y la muñeca rusa: la gramática infantil y la teorı́a lingüśtica. Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Luis A. Ortiz-López.

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(2011). Clitic placement in Spanish--English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

(2010). Ellas. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2010). Los motivos del miedo. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2010). Sesshin with stories. Tail of the Ox. Toronto..

(2010). La tercera ley de Newton. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2010). What I don't understand about interfaces. QODAS..

(2010). In the wrong mood at the right time: Children's acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in temporal clauses. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

(2010). Diagnóstico sin licencia. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2010). Cuando era feliz, e indocumentado: An Aspectual Approach to Copula Choice in L2 Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.

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(2009). Agridulce. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2009). Los perros alegres de Samaná. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2009). Agustı́n Morales no se rinde. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2009). En el reflejo de su mirada. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2009). On the Semantic Properties of Implicit Objects in Young Children's Elicited Production. Proceedings of the 33rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(2009). Early determination. Hispanic child languages.

(2008). Pedrito y Silvia. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2008). On the Semantic Properties of Implicit Objects in Young Children's Elicited Production. Paper presented at the 33rd annual University Conference on Language Development, Boston.

(2008). Las islas de otro oceano. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2008). Una isla en el techo del mundo. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2008). Syntax and the Lexicon in Early Omission of Spanish Clitics. Proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(2008). Subjuntivo y conciencia de la subjetividad en la adquisición infantil del lenguaje y la teorı́a de la mente. Revista de Logopedia, Foniatrı́a y Audiologá.

(2008). Omission and substitutions in early Spanish clitics. Language acquisition and development. Proceedings of GALA 2007.

(2008). Non-native recognition of the iterative and habitual meanings of Spanish preterite and imperfect tenses. Formal features in second language acquisition.

(2008). Early determination. Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

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(2008). Children's interpretation of null objects under the scope of negation. Proceedings of the 2008 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association.

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(2007). La felicidad y las vacaciones. Fuera de Quicio. Claridad, Puerto Rico.

(2007). Unusual objects in L1 acquisition. Canadian Linguistics Association Conference.

(2006). Barcelona a colores. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2006). Las ratas elegantes. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2006). Encinta en el mall. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2006). La vida vegetal. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2006). Las mil y una opciones. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2006). Variable input and object drop in child language. Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference.

(2006). Early object omission in child French and English. Selected papers from LSRL 2005: New perspectives in Romance linguistics.

(2006). Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan. The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages.

(2005). La medida del tiempo. Claridad, Puerto Rico..

(2005). Number problems in children. Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference.

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(2004). The development of inalienable possession in English and Spanish.. Romance languages and linguistic theory.

(2004). Learning definite determiners: genericity and definiteness in English and Spanish. Proceedings supplement to the 28th University Conference on Language Development.

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(2003). The light flashed until dawn: The L2 acquisition of the semantic mappings of Spanish tenses and problems of s-selection and compositionality. L2 Links: Proceedings of the 2002 Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-6) Conference.

(2003). Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA).

(2002). Syntactic features and discourse factors in children's interpretation of definite determiners in inalienable possessions. Canadian Linguistics Association Conference.

(2002). Syntactic features and discourse factors in children's interpretation of definite determiners in inalienable possessions. Proceedings of the 2002 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference.

(2002). Inalienable possession in L2 Spanish: At the interface of syntax, morphology and the lexicon. The acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax.

(2001). The evolution of Ukemi. Aikido News 8.6.

(2001). Children's acquisition of irrealis complement clauses in Spanish. Margareta Almgren.

(2000). Multiple acquisition paths, alternative numerations: a minimalist view of the second language acquisition of possession in Spanish. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). MIT.

(2000). The acquisition of possessor raising syntax in L2 Spanish. Proceedings of GASLA IV.

(2000). Review of Morphology and its interfaces in L2 knowledge, ed. by Maria Luise Beck. Modern Language Journal.

(2000). Linguistic diversity and inclusion in the foreign language classroom. Foreign Language Annals.

(1999). Variability in second language acquisition: grammar, processing and cognition. Issues in second language acquisition and learning, ed by Jesús Fernández González and Javier de Santiago Guervós.

(1999). The second language acquisition of Spanish word order. Proceedings of the 23rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(1999). Selectivity in the acquisition of complex NP islands. The development of second language grammars: a generative approach.

(1999). Innovación sintáctica en el español del Caribe y los principios de la gramática universal. El Caribe hispánico: perspectivas lingüı́sticas ctuals, Homenaje a Manuel Alvarez Nazario.

(1998). The acquisition of Spanish interrogative inversion. Hispanic Linguistics.

(1998). The acquisition of mood selection in Spanish relative clauses. Journal of Child Language.

(1998). Specificity, acquisition of DPs and the development of a theory of mind. New perspectives in Language Acquisition.

(1998). Parameter resetting and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. The generative study of second language acquisition.

(1998). A parametric interpretation of learners' errors: The acquisition of Spanish null objects. Estudios de Lingüı́stica Aplicada.

(1997). The interpretation of bare nouns in semantics and syntax: inherent possessors, pied-piping, and root infinitives. MITWPL 12: On the interpretation of root infinitives and bare nouns in child language.

(1997). Review of Detrás de la palabra, by V. Demonte. Hispanic Linguistics.

(1997). OPC effects in the L2 acquisition of Spanish. Contemporary perspectives on the acquisition of Spanish, vol. 1: Developing grammars.

(1996). Learning 'home': the acquisition of inherent binding and economy of representations. Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

(1995). Syntactic innovation in Caribbean Spanish: verb movement and word order in infinitivals. Proceedings of the Conference on Languages South of the Rio Bravo.

(1995). Resumptives in the acquisition of relative clauses. Language acquisition.

(1993). Empty categories and the acquisition of Wh-movement. GLSA.

(1992). Review of On the definition of binding domain in Spanish, by J. Padilla. Journal of Child Language.

(1991). The early interpretation of expletive pronouns. UMOP Psycholinguistics ed. by B. Plunkett..

(1991). The acquisition of long distance movement in Caribbean Spanish. WMOP Special Edition: Papers in the Acquisition of WH ed. by T. Maxfield and B. Plunkett.