Research Interests
My research to date can be divided into three principal areas:
1) the acquisition of variable morphosyntactic structures by learners of Spanish
2) native-speaker sociolinguistic variation in Spanish
3) the impact of study abroad on the acquisition of Spanish.
Selected Publications
In press
Kanwit, M., & Geeslin, K. (accepted). Exploring lexical effects in second language interpretation: The case of mood in Spanish adverbial clauses. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Kanwit, M. (under contract, submitted). Variation in second-language Spanish. In K.L. Geeslin (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kanwit, M., & Terán, V. (accepted). Proposing a tripartite intensifier system: the case of re, muy, and bien in Buenos Aires and Tucumán, Argentina. In D. Pascual y Cabo, I. Elola, B. Regan, & A.Y. Long (Eds.), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Nemogá, M., & Kanwit, M. (accepted). Analyzing the production of a non-standard form: Variable use of preterit andar in bogotano Spanish. Sociolinguistic Studies.
Terán, V., & Kanwit, M. (accepted). Variable past-time expression across multiple tasks in Tucumán, Argentina. Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada.
Kanwit, M., & Quesada, M.L. (accepted). Learner and native-speaker differences in the acceptability of gustar-type psychological verbs in Spanish. IRAL (International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching).
Kanwit, M. (accepted). Encantado de conocerte virtualmente: Native/non-native speaker electronic chats in Spanish. International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
2018
Kanwit, M., Elias, V., & Clay, R. (2018). Acquiring intensifier variation abroad: exploring muy and bien in Spain and Mexico. Foreign Language Annals, 51(2), 455- 471.
Geeslin, K., Gudmestad, A., Kanwit, M., Linford, B., Long, A.Y., Schmidt, L., & Solon, M. (2018). Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking. In M.R. Alonso Alonso (Ed.), Speaking in a Second Language (pp. 1-25). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Neumann, F., & Kanwit, M. (2018). New perspectives on automatic and morphophonological alternations: Harmonic processes in two Peninsular varieties of Spanish. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 7(1), 97-112.
2017
Kanwit, M. (2017). What we gain by combining variationist and concept-oriented approaches: The case of acquiring Spanish future-time expression. Language Learning, 67(2), 461-498.
Kanwit, M., Terán, V., & Pisabarro Sarrió, S. (2017). Un fenómeno bien curioso: New methods for analyzing variable intensification across four dialects of Spain and Argentina. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10(2), 259-295.
2015
Kanwit, M., Geeslin, K.L., & Fafulas, S. (2015). Study abroad and the SLA of variable structures: A look at the present perfect, the copula contrast, and the present progressive in Mexico and Spain. Probus, 27(2), 307-348.
Kanwit, M. (2015). The role of discourse topic in evidentiality marking: Variable (de)queísmo in Caracas. eHumanista/IVITRA, 8, 446-470. (Invited, refereed contribution to special issue on evidentiality in the Romance languages.)
2014
Kanwit, M., & Geeslin, K. (2014). The interpretation of Spanish subjunctive and indicative forms in adverbial clauses: A cross-sectional study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36(3), 487-533.
Solon, M., & Kanwit, M. (2014). The emergence of future verbal morphology in Spanish as a foreign language. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7(1), 115-148.
2013
Kanwit, M. (2013). L1 child acquisition of future expression in madrileño Spanish: A variationist study. In J.E. Aaron, J. Cabrelli Amaro, G. Lord, & A. de Prada Pérez (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 222-237). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Kanwit, M., & Solon, M. (2013). Acquiring variation in future-time expression abroad in Valencia, Spain and Mérida, Mexico. In J.E. Aaron, J. Cabrelli Amaro, G. Lord, & A. de Prada Pérez (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 206-221). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Geeslin, K.L., Fafulas, S., & Kanwit, M. (2013). Acquiring geographically-variable norms of use: The case of the present perfect in Mexico and Spain. In C. Howe, S. Blackwell, & M. Quesada (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 205-220). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2012
Kanwit, M. (2012). Discourse topic and (de)queísmo: A variationist study of the Spanish of Caracas. IU Working Papers in Linguistics, 12, 01.
For a full list of my scholarly activities, click the button below for my CV:
My research to date can be divided into three principal areas:
1) the acquisition of variable morphosyntactic structures by learners of Spanish
2) native-speaker sociolinguistic variation in Spanish
3) the impact of study abroad on the acquisition of Spanish.
Selected Publications
In press
Kanwit, M., & Geeslin, K. (accepted). Exploring lexical effects in second language interpretation: The case of mood in Spanish adverbial clauses. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Kanwit, M. (under contract, submitted). Variation in second-language Spanish. In K.L. Geeslin (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kanwit, M., & Terán, V. (accepted). Proposing a tripartite intensifier system: the case of re, muy, and bien in Buenos Aires and Tucumán, Argentina. In D. Pascual y Cabo, I. Elola, B. Regan, & A.Y. Long (Eds.), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Nemogá, M., & Kanwit, M. (accepted). Analyzing the production of a non-standard form: Variable use of preterit andar in bogotano Spanish. Sociolinguistic Studies.
Terán, V., & Kanwit, M. (accepted). Variable past-time expression across multiple tasks in Tucumán, Argentina. Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada.
Kanwit, M., & Quesada, M.L. (accepted). Learner and native-speaker differences in the acceptability of gustar-type psychological verbs in Spanish. IRAL (International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching).
Kanwit, M. (accepted). Encantado de conocerte virtualmente: Native/non-native speaker electronic chats in Spanish. International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.
2018
Kanwit, M., Elias, V., & Clay, R. (2018). Acquiring intensifier variation abroad: exploring muy and bien in Spain and Mexico. Foreign Language Annals, 51(2), 455- 471.
Geeslin, K., Gudmestad, A., Kanwit, M., Linford, B., Long, A.Y., Schmidt, L., & Solon, M. (2018). Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking. In M.R. Alonso Alonso (Ed.), Speaking in a Second Language (pp. 1-25). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Neumann, F., & Kanwit, M. (2018). New perspectives on automatic and morphophonological alternations: Harmonic processes in two Peninsular varieties of Spanish. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 7(1), 97-112.
2017
Kanwit, M. (2017). What we gain by combining variationist and concept-oriented approaches: The case of acquiring Spanish future-time expression. Language Learning, 67(2), 461-498.
Kanwit, M., Terán, V., & Pisabarro Sarrió, S. (2017). Un fenómeno bien curioso: New methods for analyzing variable intensification across four dialects of Spain and Argentina. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10(2), 259-295.
2015
Kanwit, M., Geeslin, K.L., & Fafulas, S. (2015). Study abroad and the SLA of variable structures: A look at the present perfect, the copula contrast, and the present progressive in Mexico and Spain. Probus, 27(2), 307-348.
Kanwit, M. (2015). The role of discourse topic in evidentiality marking: Variable (de)queísmo in Caracas. eHumanista/IVITRA, 8, 446-470. (Invited, refereed contribution to special issue on evidentiality in the Romance languages.)
2014
Kanwit, M., & Geeslin, K. (2014). The interpretation of Spanish subjunctive and indicative forms in adverbial clauses: A cross-sectional study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36(3), 487-533.
Solon, M., & Kanwit, M. (2014). The emergence of future verbal morphology in Spanish as a foreign language. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7(1), 115-148.
2013
Kanwit, M. (2013). L1 child acquisition of future expression in madrileño Spanish: A variationist study. In J.E. Aaron, J. Cabrelli Amaro, G. Lord, & A. de Prada Pérez (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 222-237). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Kanwit, M., & Solon, M. (2013). Acquiring variation in future-time expression abroad in Valencia, Spain and Mérida, Mexico. In J.E. Aaron, J. Cabrelli Amaro, G. Lord, & A. de Prada Pérez (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 206-221). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Geeslin, K.L., Fafulas, S., & Kanwit, M. (2013). Acquiring geographically-variable norms of use: The case of the present perfect in Mexico and Spain. In C. Howe, S. Blackwell, & M. Quesada (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 205-220). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2012
Kanwit, M. (2012). Discourse topic and (de)queísmo: A variationist study of the Spanish of Caracas. IU Working Papers in Linguistics, 12, 01.
For a full list of my scholarly activities, click the button below for my CV: