About
I'm a linguist working primarily in the fields of Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, and Sociophonetics. My research focuses on the development of fluency and cognitive abilities by second-language learners and how factors such as cognition, syntactic complexity, and word order affect second-language speech development. I am particularly interested in understanding the effects of language-immersion contexts, as well as of language use and interaction, on second-language linguistic development. More recently, I form part of a large humanities-based collaboration whose mission is to explore how language is entangled with cultural identity through the Patagonian Boers, a community that traces its roots to the South-African Boers who settled in Patagonia, Argentina, in the twentieth century. The title of our project is "From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of displacement".
Selected Recent Publications
[1] García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (Accepted). Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231152652
[2] García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2022). An investigation into utterance-fluency patterns of advanced L2 bilinguals: Afrikaans and Spanish in Patagonia. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(2), 163–190. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.19090.gar
[3] García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2022). Exploring the connection between language use and oral proficiency during study abroad: Results from the Daily Language Questionnaire 2. Foreign Language Annals, 55(1), 198–221. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12587
[4] García-Amaya, Lorenzo & Myrna Cintrón-Valentín*. (2021). The effects of textually enhanced captions on written elicited imitation in L2 grammar. Modern Language Journal, 105(4), 919–935. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12740
[5] Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna*, & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2021). Investigating textual enhancement and captions in L2 grammar and vocabulary: An experimental study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(5), 1068–1093. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263120000492
[6] García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2021). A change of setting: Measuring language use in an overseas immersion context. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 6(1), 32–58. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.19010.gar
[7] Henriksen, Nicholas, Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, & Micha Fischer*. (2021). Exploring language dominance through code-switching: Intervocalic voiced stop lenition in Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals. Phonetica, 78(3), 201–240. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2005
[8] García-Amaya, Lorenzo & Sean Lang**. (2020). Filled pauses are susceptible to cross-language phonetic influence: Evidence from Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(5), 1077–1015. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263120000169
[9] Szpiech, Ryan, Joshua Shapero, Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Paulina Alberto, Victoria Langland, Ellie Johandes**, & Nicholas Henriksen. (2020). Afrikaans in Patagonia: Language shift and cultural integration in a rural immigrant community. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2020(266), 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2110
[10] Henriksen, Nicholas & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2019). Falsetto in interaction in Western Andalusian Spanish: A pilot study. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, 34, 101–124.
[11] Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna*, Lorenzo García-Amaya, & Nick C. Ellis. (2019). Captioning and grammar learning in the L2 Spanish classroom. The Language Learning Journal, 47(4), 439–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2019.1615978
[12] García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2017). Detailing L1 and L2 use in study-abroad research: Data from the Daily Linguistic Questionnaire. System, 71, 60–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2017.09.023
Recent Courses Taught
- Spanish 418: Theories of Second Language Acquisition
- Spanish 487: The Acquisition of Spanish in a Study Abroad Setting
- Spanish 413: Methods of Teaching Spanish
- Spanish 298: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Research Areas(s)
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Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Oral Fluency, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Cognition, Study Abroad, Bilingualism, Andalusian Spanish, Sociophonetics
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