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Danny Melendez

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Contact Information

4024 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Fall 2024: Off teaching duties.
Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant

Research Interests

Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Spanish as a Heritage Language, L2 Acquisition, Code-Switching.

Research Description

I am interested in the real-time processing of (morpho)syntax in early (heritage) and late (L2) Spanish-English bilinguals, with a special focus on gender and number in Spanish, number in English, gender and number in codeswitching, and garden-path sentences reanalysis. 

Education

PhD in Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In Progress.

MA in Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2022.

BA in TESOL, Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Venezuela. 2016.

 

Courses Taught

SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I

SPAN 122 Intensive Elementary Spanish

SPAN 130 Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 142 Spanish in the Professions

SPAN 228 Spanish Composition - Section A For Heritage Speakers

SPAN 307 Bilingualism

SPAN 308 Spanish in the U.S.