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I am a Grad Assistant for Dr. Danny Erker in the Spanish in Boston Project. My work revolves around transcribing sociolinguistics interviews and annotating, extracting, and cleaning data related to various social and linguistic phenomena.
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
Data collection is underway.
Preliminary results have been presented at NWAV and will be presented at LSA 2024.
Subject-Verb Order in Latin American Spanish
This is the topic of my second Qualifying Paper @ BU. The article on this topic can be found here.
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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Working Papers
Erker, Daniel G. & Vidal-Covas, Lee-Ann M. Variation, Contact, and Change in Boston Spanish: How social meaning shapes stylistic practice and bilingual optimization, Submitted September 2023
Publications
2023 Vidal-Covas, Lee-Ann M. ¿Va primero el verbo? OR ¿El sujeto va primero?: Subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1). 5542. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5542
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
2024 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M.
Riding the Waves of Salience: Exploring Spanish Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speaker, Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NYC, NY, January 4th - 7th
2023 Vidal Covas, Lee-Ann M.
Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers, New Waves of Analyzing Linguistic Variation (NWAV), NYC, NY, Oct 13th - 17th
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.