Publications

Edited journal issues

Leal, T., Hoot, B., Skopeteas, S., Casillas, J., & Laleko, O. (Eds.). (2023-2025). Experimental Approaches to the Acquisition of Information Structure. Research topic (special issue) of Frontiers in Psychology. 

Hoot, B. (Ed.). (2020-2021). Contemporary Advances in Linguistic Research on Heritage Spanish. Special issue of Languages.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

Hoot, B. (2025). Focus in bilingual Spanish: A state of the science review. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11(4), 3(1-41). doi: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.509

Open-access Article

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2025). Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43, 629–667. doi: 10.1007/s11049-024-09633-5.

Article | Pre-print | Materials & Data (OSF)

Hoot, B. & Leal, T. (2023). Crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and Yucatec Maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13(4), 529-575. doi: 10.1075/lab.21020.hoo.

Article | Pre-print | Materials & Data (OSF)

Hoot, B. & Leal, T. (2023). Resilience and vulnerability of discourse-conditioned word order in heritage Spanish. Applied Psycholinguistics 44(5), 668-698. doi: 10.1017/S0142716423000152.

Open-access Article | Materials & Data (OSF)

Leal, T. & Hoot, B. (2022). L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus. Language Acquisition 29(4), 410-440. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2022.2049599.

Article | Pre-print | Materials & Data (OSF)

Hoot, B. & Leal, T. (2022). Crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and Yucatec Maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism Online Ahead of Print. doi:10.1075/lab.21020.hoo.

Article | Pre-print | Materials & Data (OSF)

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2021). The that-trace effect in Spanish/English code-switching. Languages 6(4), 189. doi: 10.3390/languages6040189.

Open-access Article | Materials & Data (OSF)

Hoot, B. & Ebert, S. (2021). On the position of subjects in Spanish: Evidence from code-switching. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 6(1), 73. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1449.

Open-access Article | Materials & Data (OSF)

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli, J. (2020). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in heritage Spanish: Judgment versus production data. Languages 5(4), 47. doi: 10.3390/languages5040047.

Open-access Article | Materials (IRIS) | Data (IRIS)

Hoot, B., Leal, T., & Destruel, E. (2020). Object focus marking in Spanish: An investigation using three tasks. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5(1), 70. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1160.

Open-access Article | Materials (IRIS): Task 1, Task 2, Task 3

Sequeros-Valle, J., Hoot, B., & Cabrelli-Amaro, J. (2020). Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: The effect of processing load at the syntax-discourse interface. Language Acquisition 27(3), 306-330. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2020.1769628

Article | Materials (IRIS) | Data (IRIS)

Hoot, B., & Leal, T. (2020). Processing subject focus across two Spanish varieties. Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics 32(1), 93-127. doi: 10.1515/probus-2019-0004

Article | Pre-print | Materials & Data (OSF)

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2019). The acquisition of Focus in L2 Spanish. Second Language Research 35(4), 449-477. doi: 10.1177/0267658318784343

Article | Materials (IRIS)

Hoot, B. (2019). Focus in heritage Hungarian. Language Acquisition 26(1), 46-72. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1393078

Article | Pre-print

Leal, T., Destruel, E., & Hoot, B. (2018). The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8(2), 217-251. doi: 10.1075/lab.16009.lea

Article | Materials (IRIS)

Ebert, S. & Hoot, B. (2018). That-trace effects in Spanish/English code-switching. In L. López (Ed.), Code-switching – Experimental answers to theoretical questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo (pp. 101-145). John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/ihll.19.05ebe

Chapter | Pre-print

Hoot, B. (2017). Narrow presentational focus in heritage Spanish and the syntax-discourse interface. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7(1), 63-95. doi: 10.1075/lab.14021.hoo

Article | Pre-print

Hoot, B. (2016). Narrow presentational focus in Mexican Spanish: Experimental evidence. Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics 28(2), 335-365. doi: 10.1515/probus-2014-0004

ArticlePre-print

González-Vilbazo, K., Bartlett, L., Downey, S., Ebert, S., Heil, J., Hoot, B., Koronkiewicz, B., & Ramos, S. (2013). Methodological considerations in code-switching research. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 6(1): 119-138. doi: 10.1515/shll-2013-1143

Article | Pre-print

Hoot, B. (2012). Narrow focus on pre-nominal modifiers in Spanish: An Optimality-Theoretic analysis. In K. Geeslin & M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 293-307). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Open-access chapter