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I was a Grad Assistant for Dr. Neil Myler's Mirror Principle Violations Project. My work involved surveying existing descriptive materials on a wide range of languages in order to describe the interactions between causative and applicative morphemes.
The Role of Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociolinguistic Study of Liquid Variation in Spanish in Boston
The completion of data collection is scheduled for the start of the Fall semeste

Subject-Verb Order in Latin American Spanish
This is the topic of my second Qualifying Paper @ BU. This was submitted as a Proceedings paper for LSA 2023.
Filled Pauses as a site of dialectal and language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians
This was the topic of my first Qualifying Paper @ BU, as well as a joint publication with Danny Erker.

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Publications
2022 Erker, D. & Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. Qué decimos cuando no decimos nada: Claves del cambio lingüístico inducido por contacto en las pausas llenas del español conversacional. Estudios del Observatorio / Observatorio Studies, 80, pp. 1- 31.https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/es/informes
2022 Erker, D. & Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers. Estudios del Observatorio / Observatorio Studies, 80, pp. 1- 31.https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/reports
2021 Dionne, D. & Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. (Eds). Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2014 Orozco, R., Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M, & Méndez Vallejo, Catalina. Los efectos condicionantes del verbo en el uso variable de los pronombres personales de sujeto. In: Actas del XVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, July 14th-18th.
2013 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico. LSU Master's Theses. 3876. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/3876
2023 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M.
Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers, Linguistics Program - Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 23rd
2023 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M.
¿Va primero el verbo OR El sujeto va primero?: Subject-Verb order in Latin American Spanish, LSA 2023, Denver, CO, January 5th– 8th
2021 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians. LSA 2021, (Virtual) January 9th.
2020 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M. Guest Lecture: English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses. Intro to Sounds - Boston University, Boston, MA, October 15th.