Contact Information
4080 FLB
M/C 176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Biography
Research Interests
Psycholinguistics
Bilingualism
Corpus Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Translation
Education
- PhD, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), in progress
- Graduate Certificate, Translation Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 2020
- Graduate Certificate, Programming and Data Analysis, UNED - National University of Distance Education (Spain), 2019
- MA, Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 2018
- BA, Modern Languages: Concentration in Linguistics, University of Deusto (Spain), 2016
- Study Abroad, Fachhochschule Aachen (Germany), 2016
- Study Abroad, Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg (Germany), 2015
Grants
- Career Exploration Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2022)
- Darlene Wolf Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021)
- Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021)
- Conference Travel Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018, 2019, 2022)
- Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018, 2019, 2021)
- SLATE Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018)
- Scholarship for Language and Culture Studies in Germany, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - DAAD (2016)
Awards and Honors
- Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Nebrija-Santander Global Chair for Spanish as a Language of Migrants and Refugees (2021)
- WeCU Community Engaged Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021)
- Best Master's Thesis Award, ASELE Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (2019)
- Paula Menyuk Award, Boston University (2019, 2020)
- Best Graduate Paper Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019)
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2017)
- Academic Excellence Award, University of Deusto (2012-2016)
- Academic Excellence Award for Arts and Humanities Students, Basque Government (2012)
Courses Taught
SPAN 490: Research in Applied Linguistics (Fall 2021)
SPAN/LLS 308: Spanish in the US (Fall 2023)
GC 295: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
SPAN 252: Intro to Hispanic Linguistics (Spring 2018, Summer 2020)
SPAN 228: Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakers (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
SPAN 142: Spanish for the Professions (Fall 2020)
SPAN 141: Intro to Spanish Grammar (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2023)
SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017)
I was awarded a Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching as well as a Mentoring Certificate in 2021.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Highlighted Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Hurtado, I., & Gastañaga, K. (2021). Influence of Writing Instruction on Spanish Heritage Learners in Heritage-only and Mixed Courses: A Longitudinal Study. Languages, 6(2), 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020109
Hurtado, I., & Montrul, S. (2021). Priming Dative Clitics in Spoken Spanish as a Second and Heritage Language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(4), 729-752. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000716
Hurtado, I. (2019). On the Depronominalization of 'Les' in Peninsular Spanish. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 7(1), 95-109. URL.
Monographs
Hurtado, I. (2020). The Implicit Acquisition of Spanish L2 Syntax: A Priming Study. ASELE. URL.
Proceedings
Hurtado, I. (2022). BILinMID: A Spanish-English Corpus of the US Midwest. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) (pp. 5511-5516). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). URL.
Hurtado, I. (2021). Syntactic Priming May Not Lead to Language Change. In A. Botinis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (pp. 121-124). ExLing Society. https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0031/000504
Hurtado, I., & Montrul, S. (2021). How Do Construction Frequency Effects Modulate L2 Priming? In D. Dionne & L.-A. V. Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 346-359). Cascadilla Press. URL.
Hurtado, I., & Montrul, S. (2020). Examining the Effect of Structural Priming on three Different Populations: Spanish Native Speakers, Spanish L2 Learners, and Spanish Heritage Speakers. In M. Brown & A. Kohut (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 196-209). Cascadilla Press. URL.