Alejandro Cuza
- Professor // SLC
- Professor // Spanish and Portuguese // SLC
- Chair // Linguistics // SIS
- Professor // SIS
- Professor // Linguistics // SIS
- Professor // Latin American Studies // SIS
Research Focus
Spanish Linguistics, Morphosyntax
Office and Contact
Room: SC 160
Office hours: Spring 2019: T/TH 2:00-3:00 pm
Email: acuza@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 496-1685
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics. University of Toronto
Research Interests: Spanish Linguistics (morphosyntax and semantics), Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Development, Child Bilingual Development, Bilingualism.
Specialization
Second Language Acquisition, Child and Adult Bilingual Development, Spanish Morphosyntax and Semantics, Psycholinguistics
My primary area of research focuses on the psycholinguistic processes involved in the second language acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax, semantics and bilingualism. Specifically, I’m interested in the role of language transfer, input conditions and age of onset of bilingualism in the acquisition and loss of Spanish morphosyntactic patterns among bilingual children, adult L2 learners and Spanish heritage speakers.