Rosa E. Guzzardo TamargoAssociate Professor of Hispanic LinguisticsDepartment of Hispanic Studies Graduate Program of LinguisticsUniversity of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campusEmail: rosa.guzzardo@upr.edu

Research OverviewMy research concerns the way that bilinguals produce and comprehend language. Some of the recent work that I have conducted with colleagues and students uses different offline and online measures to examine the language use and preferences of bilinguals during codeswitched discourse, as well as their parsing strategies and their processing of different codeswitches. Another aspect of my research focuses on the language attitudes that bilinguals display towards different types of codeswitching, such as insertional switching, intersentential switching, and intrasentential switching. These studies address the role of previous linguistic experience on language use, the relationship between production and comprehension processes, and the complex interplay of language attitudes with linguistic expression.

PapersGuzzardo Tamargo, R. E., & Vélez Avilés, J. (forthcoming). La alternancia de códigos en Puerto Rico: preferencias y actitudes. Caribbean Studies. San Juan, PR: Instituto de Estudios del Caribe.

Guzzardo Tamargo, R. E. & Dussias, P. E. (2016). Codeswitching comprehension patterns of two Spanish-English U.S. bilingual communities. In R. E. Guzzardo Tamargo, C. M. Mazak, & M. C. Parafita Couto (Eds.), Spanish-English codeswitching in the Caribbean and the United States. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11. John Benjamins.

Guzzardo Tamargo, R. E., Valdés Kroff, J. R., & Dussias, P. E. (2016). Examining the relationship between comprehension and production processes in code-switched language. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 138-161.

TalksGuzzardo Tamargo, R. E., Valdés Kroff, J. R., & Dussias, P. E. (2015, May). Behavioral methods to study the comprehension of spoken and written codeswitches. Paper presented as part of the thematic session “Methodological considerations for the study of intra-sentential code-switching” at The 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Brunswick, NJ. Guzzardo Tamargo, R. E. (2015, November 20). Examining the relation between production patterns and comprehension costs with code-switched language”. Invited lecture given as part of the Shifting between perspectives: Examining code-switching in Hispanic populations Speaker Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Guzzardo Tamargo, R. E., Loureiro-Rodríguez, V., Vélez Avilés, J., & Acar, E. (2016, June). Attitudes towards Spanish, English, and code-switching in Puerto Rico. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. Murcia, Spain.