ISRAEL DE LA FUENTE
PhD candidate
LabEx “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics”
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF)
Université Paris 7 - Diderot (France)
[email protected]
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Fuente
1. BACKGROUND
Academic degrees In progress
Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris 7 – Diderot, France
Dissertation title: The role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in reference
interpretation: A model of intra-sentential pronoun resolution
Dissertation adviser: Dr. Barbara Hemforth
2011
Master of Research (passed with distinction), Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
University of Essex, UK
MRes thesis title: Ambiguous pronoun resolution in native and non-native Spanish:
The Position of Antecedent Hypothesis revisited
MRes thesis adviser: Dr. Claudia Felser
2010
Master of Arts, Hispanic Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2008
Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Erasmus Exchange Program, National University of Ireland (Galway)
2006-07
Professional Appointments PhD researcher «LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics» (2012-2015)
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) – Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Lecturer (2012-2014)
Department of Modern Languages, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
Department of Language Sciences, Université Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint-Denis (France)
Teaching Assistant (2008-2010)
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)
Research Assistant (2007-2010)
Language Acquisition Lab (UVA-LAL) – Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)
2. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research interests Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition; Language
processing; Reference resolution processes in native and non-native languages; Romance linguistics
Publications a. Peer-reviewed journal articles
1. Montrul, S., Davidson, J., de la Fuente, I., and Foote, R. (2014). Early language experience
facilitates gender agreement processing in Spanish heritage speakers. Bilingualism:
Language and Cognition, 17, 1, 118-138.
2. Montrul, S., de la Fuente, I., Davidson, J. & Foote, R. (2013). The role of experience in the
acquisition and processing of morphology: Evidence from L2 learners and heritage speakers.
Second Language Research, 29: 87-118, Special issue on Morphology in L2 acquisition and
processing.
b. Conference proceedings
1. de la Fuente, I., & Hemforth, B. (2013). Topicalization and focusing effects on subject and
object pronoun resolution in Spanish. In Cabrelli Amaro, J., Lord, G., de Prada Pérez, A., &
Aaron, J. E. (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2012.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press [http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/16/index.html]
2. Davidson, J., de la Fuente, I., Montrul, S., & Foote, R. (2011). Early language experience
facilitates gender processing in Spanish heritage speakers. Danis, N., Mesh, K. & Sung, H.
(eds.), Online Proceedings Supplement of BUCLD 35. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
[http://www.bu.edu/bucld/proceedings/supplement/vol35/]
c. Reviews
1. Review of Dupoux, E., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Navarrete, E., & Peperkamp, S. (2008)
“Persistent stress ‘deafness’: The case of French learners of Spanish.” Cognition, 106: 682706. Published in Boletín Oficial de la Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como
Lengua Extranjera (ASELE), 38, May 2008
Presentations Refereed conference presentations
1. “The time course of semantic constraints in pronoun resolution”. Architectures and
Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2014). September 2014. University of
Edinburgh, UK. (Poster, with B. Hemforth)
2. “Reference as a side-effect of discourse expectations: The case of focus particles”. The 27th
annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2014). March 2014. The
Ohio State University, Columbus, US. (Poster, with B. Hemforth)
3. “Expectations matter when resolving pronouns in explanation and temporal clauses: The
difference between Even and Only”. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing
(AMLaP 2013). September 2013. Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France. (Poster, with
B. Hemforth)
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4. “Anti-focus effects in pronoun resolution?” Architectures and Mechanisms of Language
Processing (AMLaP 2013). September 2013. Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
(Poster, with B. Hemforth)
5. “Only and Even: Focusing effects on pronoun resolution in temporal clauses and
explanations”. Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational
Perspectives (DETEC2013). June 2013. Universität Tübingen, Germany. (Poster, with B.
Hemforth)
6. “Clause structure matters: The role of left-dislocations and clefts in pronoun resolution”. The
26th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2013). March 2013.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, US. (Poster, with B. Hemforth, S. Colonna and S.
Schimke)
7. “The role of information structure on object pronoun resolution in Spanish: Topic vs. Focus”.
35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2013). Thematic session:
Information structural evidence in the race for salience. March 2013. Universiät Potsdam,
Potsdam, Germany. (with B. Hemforth)
8. “Topicalisation and focusing effects on ambiguous subject and object pronoun resolution in
Spanish”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. October 2012. University of Florida, Gainesville,
US. (with avec B. Hemforth)
9. “Ambiguous object pronoun resolution in native Spanish: the role of information structure”.
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2012). September 2012.
Universidad degli Studi di Trento, Riva del Garda, Italy. (Poster, with B. Hemforth)
10. “Gender processing in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Spanish: the role of language
experience”. 21st Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association
(EuroSLA 21). September 2011. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. (with J.
Davidson, S. Montrul and R. Foote)
11. “The role of diminutives in the oral production of gender agreement in Spanish”. 21st Annual
Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 21). September 2011.
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. (with J. Davidson, S. Montrul and R. Foote)
12. “Early language experience facilitates gender processing in Spanish heritage speakers”. 35
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 35). Novembre 2010.
Boston University, Boston, US. (Poster, with J. Davidson, S. Montrul and R. Foote)
13. “An advantage for Spanish heritage speakers with gender marking in the oral production of
diminutives”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. October 2010. Indiana University,
Bloomington, US. (with J. Davidson, S. Montrul and R. Foote)
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Invited presentations
1. “The role of focus particles and coherence relations in pronoun resolution: Evidence from
offline questionnaires and eye movements”. June 2014. Universität Münster, Germany.
2. “Psycholinguistics in a nutshell”. April 2014. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.
Other presentations
1. “The role of focus particles and coherence relations in pronoun resolution”. LingLunch.
October 2013. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris, France. (with B. Hemforth)
2. “La résolution des pronoms sujets et objets en français et en espagnol”. LingLunch. October
2012. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris, France. (with B. Hemforth)
3. “Ambiguous subject and object pronoun resolution in French and Spanish”. Workshop on
Anaphor Resolution (Journée des Anaphors). October 2012. Université Paris 7-Diderot, Paris,
France. (with B. Hemforth)
4. “Pronoun resolution in native Spanish: evidence from offline questionnaires”. 5e Journée des
Doctorants. June 2012. UFR Linguistique, Université Paris 7-Diderot, Paris, France.
5. “Linguistic knowledge in second language learners and heritage speakers: where are the
differences?” Colloquium of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. November
2011. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, US. (with J. Davidson, S. Montrul
and R. Foote)
6. “Early language experience facilitates gender processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers”.
Third Annual SLATE Graduate Research Symposium. May 2011. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, US. (Poster, with J. Davidson, S. Montrul and R. Foote)
7. “Processing of gender agreement in clitics by adult L2 learners of Spanish”. First Annual
SLATE Graduate Research Symposium. May 2009. University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Urbana, US. (Poster)
Participation in funded research projects 1. Le rôle des différences inter-langues dans l'acquisition des stratégies d'interprétation d'une
anaphore. (2014-15) Université Paris 8 (France) & Universität Osnabrück (Germany)
P.I.: Dr. Saveria Colonna & Dr. Sarah Schimke
2. Labex EFL: Experimental Grammar from a Cross-linguistic Perspective: Anaphora
Resolution from a Cross-linguistic perspective. (2012-15) LLF (Université Paris 7 – Diderot)
P.I.: Dr. Barbara Hemforth
3. Bilingual Past Project. (2009-10) SLAB lab (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
P.I.: Prof. Silvina Montrul
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4. Elaboración y análisis de un corpus de datos de adquisición del inglés y del español como L1
y L2 de niños y adultos: aprendizaje formal, naturaleza del input y factor edad. (2009-10)
UVA-LAL (Universidad de Valladolid)
P.I.: Dr. Raquel Fernández Fuertes
5. Linguistic theory and the analysis of bilingual systems: longitudinal analysis of the
simultaneous acquisition of English and Spanish. (2007-8) UVA-LAL (Universidad de
Valladolid) & Ottawa-LAlab (University of Ottawa)
CHILDES FerFuLice corpus [http://childes.talkbank.org/browser/index.php?url=Biling/FerFuLice/]
P.I.: Dr. Raquel Fernández Fuertes and Prof. Juana M. Liceras
3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008-2010) •
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Intermediate Spanish
Spanish in the Professions
Practical Review of Spanish
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Université Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint Denis (2012-2014) • Langage et Cerveau
Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2012-2014) • Remise à niveau en anglais
• La communication dans tous ses états
• Langues, sociétés, et cultures anglo-saxonnes à travers les médias
Other merits •
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Graduate Teacher Certificate awarded by the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2010
Ranked as Excellent and/or Outstanding Teacher in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring
2010 [http://cte.illinois.edu/teacheval/ices/exc_teach.html/]
4. SKILLS
Languages Spanish (native), English (near-native), French (advanced), Italian (beginner), Arabic (beginner)
Lab skills • Experimentation: E-Prime, DMDX, Linger, SR-Research Experiment Builder, Praat
• Data analysis: SPSS, R
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5. REFERENCES
Dr. Barbara Hemforth ([email protected])
CNRS, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Dr. Claudia Felser ([email protected])
Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, Universität Potsdam
Prof. Silvina Montrul ([email protected])
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Raquel Fernández Fuertes ([email protected])
Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Valladolid
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