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Kimberly L. Geeslin | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Hispanic Linguistics
Office: Ballantine Hall 853
TEL: 856-5470
Email: kgeeslin
Education
Ph.D., 1999. University of Arizona
M.A., 1996. University of Arizona
B.A., 1993. University of New Hampshire
Specializations
- Second Language Acquisition (issues in the acquisition of Spanish by English-speakers)
- The intersection of sociolinguistics and Second Language Learning (language variation and change)
Selected Publications
Books and Edited Volumes:
- Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2008). Language Acquisition, Language Variation and Copula Choice in Spanish. Special volume (11, 3, 273 - 387) of Bilingualism: Language and Congnition. Cambridge University Press.
- Geeslin, K. (2005). Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries to Improve the Analysis of Second Language Data: A Study of Copula Choice with Adjectives in Spanish. Munich: LINCOM Publishers. 313 pages.
- Lee, J., Geeslin, K. & Clements, J.C. (Eds.). (2002). Structure, Meaning and Acquisition in Spanish: Selected Papers from the Fourth Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 335 pages.
Refereed Articles:
- Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2008). Variable subject expression in second-language Spanish: A comparison of native and non-native speakers. In M. Bowles, R. Foote, S. Perpiñán, & R. Bhatt (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum, pp. 69-85. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Estar in four Cases of Language Contact. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 3, 365-380. Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2008). Comparing interview and written elicitation tasks in native and non-native use: Do speakers do what we think they do? In J. Bruhn de Garavito & E. Valenzuela (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 64-77. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2007). The SLA of Variable Structures: Analyzing Obligatory and Variable Contexts. ITL: International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 153, 25-51.
- Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2007). Spanish in Contact with Galician: Exploring Language Learning and Language Use. In K. Potowski and R. Cameron (eds.), Spanish in contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, pp. 253-273. John Benjamins.
- Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Copula Choice: Following Development in Variable Structures. In N. Sagarra & J. Toribio (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 144-156. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Geeslin, K. (2006). Linguistic contextual features and variation in L2 data elicitation. In C. Klee & T. Face (eds.), Selected proceedings from the 7thConference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as a first and second language, pp. 74-85.. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2006). The Second Language Acquisition of Variable Structures in Spanish by Portuguese Speakers. Language Learning 56 (1), 53-107.
- Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2006). Interpretation of Spanish copula choice by Portuguese near-native speakers. In C. Abello-Contesse, R. Chacón-Beltrán, M.D. López-Jiménez, & M.M. Torreblanca-López, (eds.), Age in L2 Acquisition and Teaching (pp. 193-209). Pieterlen, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
- Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2006). Copula choice in the Spanish of Galicia: The effects of bilingualism on language use. Spanish in Context, 3(1).
- Geeslin, K. (2003). A comparison of copula choice in advanced and native Spanish. Language Learning, 53, 4, 703-764.
- Geeslin, K. (2003). The Role of adjectival features in the second language acquisition of copula choice. In P. Kempchinsky & C. Piñeros, (Eds.), Theory, Practice and Acquisition: Papers from the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, (pp. 332-351). Cascadilla Press.
- Geeslin, K. (2002). The second language acquisition of copula choice and its relationship to language change. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24, (3), 419-451.
- Geeslin, K. (2002). Semantic transparency as a predictor of copula choice in second language acquisition. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 40 (2), 439-468.
- Geeslin, K. (2001). Changing norms, moving targets and the SLA of copula choice. Spanish Applied Linguistics, 5 (1-2), 29-55.
- Geeslin, K. (2000). A new approach to the second language acquisition of copula choice in Spanish. In R. Leow & C. Sanz (Eds.), Spanish Applied Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 1999 Conference on the L1 & L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, (pp. 50-66). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Honors and Awards
- Department of Spanish & Portuguese, GSAC Outstanding Mentor Award, 2006
- Indiana University FACET Award, 2005
- British Academy Project Development Grant (reference number: SG-40255), "An investigation of the acquisition and use of Spanish", 2005-2006, (£6030). [with Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes]
- Active Learning Grant for development of S428, Indiana University.
- Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2002, 2008.
- Faculty Summer Fellowship, Indiana University.
Current Research Projects
- The second langauge acquisition of geographically-indexed variants (e.g. leísmo, interdental fricative) in a study abroad setting [collaborative projects with Dr. Erik Willis and Nicholas Henriksen, Maria Hasler Barker, Lorenzo García-Amaya and Jason Killam]
- A comparative study of advanced non-native and native speaker use of variable structuresin Spanish (e.g., future and past time reference, copula contrast, mood use and subject expression) [collaborative project with Dr. Aarnes Gudmestad]
- A study of the relationship between vocabulary size, copula choice and the second language acquisition of variation in the [copula + adjective] structure
- The second langauge acquisition of intonation [collaborative project with Dr. Erik Willis and Nicholas Henriksen]
