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Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2024). Acquisition under reduced input: Island constraints in heritage Spanish. Paper presented at Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL, United States. | Handout

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2024). Syntactic islands in heritage Spanish. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States. | Handout

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2023). For which speakers do you wonder whether si is a syntactic island? Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Paris, France. | Handout

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2023). Individual variation in locality effects: Experimental evidence from Spanish wh-islands. Paper presented at the workshop Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition, Philadelphia, PA. | Handout

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2022). Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Online due to COVID-19: https://lsrl52.spanport.wisc.edu/.

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2021). The role of C and T in the that-trace effect: Evidence from code-switching. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Online due to COVID-19: https://publish.illinois.edu/lsrl51atUIUC.

Hoot, B. & Leal, T. (2020). Processing information focus: the syntax-discourse interface in heritage Spanish. Paper presented at the National Heritage Language Resource Center’s Heritage Language Research Institute, Online due to COVID-19: nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/14076.

Hoot, B. & Leal, T. (2020). Processing information focus in heritage Spanish. Paper presented at the National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Albuquerque, NM.

Hoot, B., Leal, T., & Destruel, E. (2020). Methodological triangulation at the syntax/pragmatics interface: Narrow object focus in Spanish across three task modalities. Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany.

Leal, T., Hoot, B., & Destruel, E. (2019). L2 acquisition of object focus in Spanish across experimental tasks. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Reno, NV.

Hoot, B., & Ebert, S. (2019). Subjects in Spanish/English code-switching: Testing the Phase Head Hypothesis. Poster presented at Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Leiden, Netherlands.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2019). Information focus in bilingual Spanish across experimental tasks. Paper presented at Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Leiden, Netherlands.

Hoot, B., & Ebert, S. (2019). Testing the Phase Head Hypothesis in Spanish/English code-switching. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2018.) Object focus in Spanish across experimental tasks. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Austin, TX.

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli Amaro, J. (2018). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in heritage Spanish: Judgment vs. speeded production data. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2018). Processing information focus in bilingual Spanish. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Hoot, B., & Ebert, S. (2018). The that-trace effect in Spanish/English code-switching. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T.  (2017). Information focus in monolingual and bilingual Yucatec Spanish: Processing evidence. Poster presented at Going Romance, Bucharest, Romania.

Hoot, B., & Ebert, S. (2017). The that-trace effect and the status of Spanish subjects: Evidence from code-switching. Poster presented at Going Romance, Bucharest, Romania.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2017). Processing information focus in Spanish monolinguals and Yucatec Maya/Spanish bilinguals. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2017). Processing information focus in Spanish monolinguals and Yucatec Maya/Spanish bilinguals. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Lubbock, TX.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2017). Bilingual processing of informational focus in Spanish. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Limerick, Ireland.

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli Amaro, J. (2017). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in heritage Spanish: Data from a speeded production task. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Limerick, Ireland.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2017). Processing informational focus in Spanish. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Southampton, UK.

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli Amaro, J. (2016). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: Data from a speeded production task. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2016). Processing informational focus in Spanish. Paper presented at the American Pragmatics Association, Bloomington, IN.

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli Amaro, J. (2016). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: The Effect of a Timed Task on L2 Performance. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Washington, DC.

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli Amaro, J. (2016). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: Speeded production data. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Hoot, B., & C. Barrera-Tobón. (2016). Blending and flipping basic and intermediate Spanish: Course development and reception. Paper presented at the Chicago Language Symposium, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2016). Hungarian pre-verbal focus is not necessarily exhaustive for Hungarian/English bilinguals. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2015). On the role of linguistic and extralinguistic factors in the realization of focus in Spanish. Poster presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Hoot, B. (2015). Focus in the Hungarian of late and early Hungarian/English bilinguals. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Brunswick, NJ.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2015). Focus realizations in native and heritage Spanish. Paper presented at the National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Lubbock, TX.

Hoot, B. (2015). Focus in bilingual Hungarian: A test of the Interface Hypothesis. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2014). Production of two focus types in native, heritage, and L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, West Lafayette, IN.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2014). Focus realizations in native and L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Columbia, SC.

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2014). Focus realizations in native and L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Barrera-Tobón, C., & Hoot, B. (2013). A reconsideration of discourse-related syntactic movement motivated by prosody in Spanish. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, New York, NY.

Hoot, B. (2013). Focus marked by stress shift in Spanish: Experimental evidence. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Hoot, B. (2012). Narrow presentational focus in Mexican Spanish: Experimental evidence. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Gainesville, FL.

Hoot, B. (2012). Narrow presentational focus in heritage Spanish. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B., & López, L. (2012). The I-language of bilinguals. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2012). An experimental investigation of narrow focus in heritage and monolingual Spanish. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Cedar City, UT.

González-Vilbazo, K., Bartlett, L., Downey, S., Ebert, S., Heil, J., Hoot, B., Koronkiewicz, B., & Ramos, S. (2012). Methods in code-switching research. Paper presented at the In/Between Conference, Chicago, IL.

González-Vilbazo, K., Bartlett, L., Downey, S., Ebert, S., Heil, J., Hoot, B., Koronkiewicz, B., & Ramos, S. (2012). Theory and experiment: Toward best practices in code-switching research. Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany.

Hoot, B. (2011). Complementizers in Spanish-English code-switching. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Athens, GA.

González-Vilbazo, K., Bartlett, L., Downey, S., Ebert, S., Heil, J., Hoot, B., Koronkiewicz, B., & Ramos, S. (2011). Methodological considerations in code-switching research. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Athens, GA.

Hoot, B. (2011). What’s up with that? Complementizer asymmetry in Spanish/English code-switching. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. Oslo, Norway.

Hoot, B. (2011). Complementizer asymmetry in Spanish/English code-switching. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2011). An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Focus Realization in Spanish. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hoot, B. (2010). Narrow Focus on Pre-Nominal Modifiers in Spanish: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis. Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Bloomington, IN.

Hoot, B. (2010). T-to-C movement: Evidence from code-switching. Paper presented at the In/Between Conference, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2009). Focus marking in monolingual and heritage Spanish: Preliminary results. Paper presented at the UIC Bilingualism Forum, Chicago, IL.

Invited Presentations & Lectures

Hoot, B. (2024). Measuring heritage speakers’ grammatical knowledge using acceptability judgment tasks. Panel contribution presented at the Heritage Language Research Institute, Irvine, CA. | Handout

Hoot, B. (2024). Information structure in bilingual Spanish: Translating thirty years of research. Alumni keynote address for the In/Between conference, Chicago, IL. | Handout

Hoot, B. (2024). Information structure in bilingual Spanish. Keynote address for Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Puebla, Mexico. | Handout

Hoot, B. (2022). Syntactic island effects in Spanish. Paper presented at the Modern Languages Faculty Research Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2021). Syntactic islands in Spanish: Preliminary results. Paper presented at UIC Talks in Linguistics, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2020). The syntax of Spanish/English code-switching: Experimental results. Paper presented at the Modern Languages Faculty Research Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2020). The linguistic structure of bilingual US Latinos’ Spanish/English code-switching. Public lecture presented at the DePaul Center for Latino Research’s Tertulia, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2017). La metodología en el estudio del bilingüismo: Ejemplo de un experimento lingüístico cuantitativo [Methodology in the study of bilingualism: Example of a quantitative linguistic experiment]. Guest lecture, Universidad Marista, in “Qualitative research methods” (Prof. G. Cortés Camarillo), Mérida, Mexico.

Hoot, B. (2016). La influencia translingüística y la interfaz sintaxis-discurso bilingüe [Crosslinguistic influence and the bilingual syntax-discourse interface]. Guest lecture, University of Barcelona, in “Morphology and lexicology” (Prof. M. Cruz) and “Sociolinguistics” (Prof. C. Illamola), Barcelona, Spain.

Hoot, B. (2014). Research on Hungarian in the US. Public lecture, Itt-Ott Conference, Magyar Baráti Közösség [Hungarian Communion of Friends], McArthur, OH.

Hoot, B. (2014). The focus construction in bilingual Hungarian: Language contact and bilingual grammars. Paper presented at the DePaul Social Science Research Center’s Mess Hall talk series, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2013). UIC Bilingualism Research Laboratory. Roundtable contribution, National Heritage Language Resource Center’s Heritage Language Research Institute, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2013). The socio/linguistics of heritage language learners. Guest lecture, DePaul University, in “Second, world, and heritage language acquisition” (WLE360/BBE560, Prof. L. Jin), Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2012). El foco presentacional en el español bajío [Presentational focus in Bajío Spanish]. Conferencia magistral [keynote], VII Coloquio Nacional “Efraín Huerta” de Lengua y Literatura, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Hoot, B. (2012). Presentational focus in heritage and monolingual Spanish. Poster presented at the UIC Student Research Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2012). An experimental investigation of narrow focus in heritage and monolingual Spanish. Paper presented at UIC Talks in Linguistics, Chicago, IL.

Waas, J., Hoot, B., & González-Vilbazo, K. (2012). Subject Focus in Heritage Grammar. Poster presented at the In/Between Conference, Chicago, IL.

Bustos, B., Hoot, B., & González-Vilbazo, K. (2012). Complementizers in Spanish/English code-switching. Poster presented at the In/Between Conference, Chicago, IL.

Bulatović, M., Hoot, B., & González-Vilbazo, K. (2011). Main Stress Shift as a Marker of Presentational Focus in Spanish. Poster presented at the UIC Student Research Forum, Chicago, IL.

Hoot, B. (2009). An Optimality Theoretic analysis of focus in Spanish and English. Paper presented at UIC Talks in Linguistics, Chicago, IL.

Other Participation in Scholarly Meetings

Session Chair, Bilingualism Forum, 2022, Chicago, IL, United States.

Session Chair, Chicago Language Symposium, 2021, Online due to COVID-19: las.depaul.edu/academics/modern-languages/about/events/chicago-language-symposium/Pages/default.aspx.

Session Chair, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2021, Online due to COVID-19: linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2021-annual-meeting.

Session Chair, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, 2020, Online due to COVID-19: sites.utexas.edu/lsrl50/.

Participant, Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Institute, 2015, Chicago, IL.

Participant, National Heritage Language Resource Center’s Heritage Language Research Institute, 2013, Chicago, IL.

Participant, SyntaxFest, 2010, Bloomington, IN.

Participant, National Heritage Language Resource Center’s Heritage Language Research Institute, 2009, Urbana-Champaign, IL.