Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
By appointment only (due to sabbatical)
Research Interests
Second Language Acquisition
Bilingualism and Spanish as a Heritage Language
Psycholinguistic Research Methods
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, M.A.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor, Linguistics
External Links
Recent Publications
Jegerski, J., & Fernández Cuenca, S. (2025). Variability in the Online Processing of Subject–Verb Number Agreement in Spanish as a Heritage Language: The Role of Lexical Frequency. Languages, 10(9), Article 211. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090211
Melendez, D., Jegerski, J., & Montrul, S. A. (2025). The Role of Determiners in the Processing of Gender Agreement Morphology by Heritage Speakers of Spanish. Languages, 10(9), Article 202. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090202
Jegerski, J. (2024). RESEARCH ON ONLINE INPUT PROCESSING: Self-Paced Reading, Eye-tracking, ERPs, and Beyond. In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Input Processing (pp. 364-377). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041412-32
Fernández Cuenca, S., & Jegerski, J. (2023). A role for verb regularity in the L2 processing of the Spanish subjunctive mood: Evidence from eye-tracking. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(2), 318-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226312200016X
Jegerski, J., & Keating, G. D. (2023). Using self-paced reading in research with heritage speakers: a role for reading skill in the online processing of Spanish verb argument specifications. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1056561. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1056561