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Education

• Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2022
• M.A. Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015
• B.A. Translation and Interpretation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012

Professional appointments

• Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Languages Department, McMaster University, 2022
• Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015 - 2018

Publications

Deconstructing Heritage Language Dominance: Effects of Proficiency, Use, and Input on Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Alveolar Tap.

Kim, JY. Repiso-Puigdelliura G. Deconstructing Heritage Language Dominance: Effects of Proficiency, Use, and Input on Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Alveolar Tap. Phonetica. 77(1), pp. 55-80. DOI: 10.1159/000501188

Keeping a Critical Eye on Majority Language Influence: The Case of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish.

Kim JY, Repiso-Puigdelliura, G. (2021). Keeping a Critical Eye on Majority Language Influence: The Case of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish. Languages, 6 (1), 13.https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010013

The Missing Link in Spanish Heritage Trill Production

Repiso-Puigdelliura, G. Kim, JY. (2021). The Missing Link in Spanish Heritage Trill Production Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 4(3), 454-466.

Empty Onset Repairs in the Semi-Spontaneous Speech of Spanish Child and Adult Heritage Speakers.

Repiso-Puigdelliura G. Empty onset repairs in the semi-spontaneous speech of Spanish child and adult heritage speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism. May 2021. doi:10.1177/13670069211016547

Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Voiced Palatal Obstruent: A Closer Look at Orthography and Universal Phonetic Principles

Repiso-Puigdelliura, G., Benvenuti, I., & Kim, J. Y. (2021). Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Voiced Palatal Obstruent/ʝ/: A Closer Look at Orthography and Universal Phonetic Principles. Heritage Language Journal, 18(1), 1-30.

Repairing Word-External Onsetless Syllables during Late Childhood.

Repiso-Puigdelliura G. (2021). Repairing Word-External Onsetless Syllables during Late Childhood. In D. Dionne and Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Sommerville, MA:Cascadilla Press pp. 639-651

Glottalizing at Word Junctures: Exploring Bidirectional Transfer in Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers.

Repiso-Puigdelliura, G. (2023). Glottalizing at word junctures: Exploring bidirectional transfer in child and adult Spanish heritage speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S1366728923000160

Invited Talks

• The Production of Spanish Rhotics by Spanish Heritage Speakers: Variation and Development, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, October 2022
• Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Production of Connected Speech in Spanish, Lecture at the Department of Hispanic Language and Literature College of Humanities, Seoul National University, August 2021
• Spanish child and Adult Heritage Speakers’ Production of Spanish Rhotics, Lecture at Department of Hispanic Language and Literature College of Humanities, Seoul National University, August 2021

Talks

• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (November, 2022). Delayed development of the Spanish trill in Spanish-English bilinguals. 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development, BU.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (April, 2022). Bidirectional transfer of glottal phonation in the speech of US Spanish-English bilingual speakers. New Sounds 2022, Barcelona.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (October, 2021). The effects of language transfer during Spanish heritage language development. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2021, Wake Forest University, USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (April - May, 2021). Do Spanish Codas Completely Resyllabify? A Look at Mexican Spanish. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 51 2021, Urbana-Champaign University (online), USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (February, 2020). Spanish Resyllabification in Child and Adult Heritage Speakers. Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2020, San José, USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma, and Ji Young Kim. (November, 2019). The Acquisition of the Spanish Trill in Child and Adult Heritage Speakers. R-atics 6 (Sorbonne Université), Paris, France.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (October, 2019). The Intonation of Child Heritage Speakers. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2019, El Paso, USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma, Isabel Benvenuti, and Ji Young Kim. (October, 2019). Heritage Speakers’ Production of Palatal Fricatives. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2019, El Paso, USA
• Kim, Ji Young, and Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura. (October, 2018). Understanding the Shapes and Meanings of Uptalk in Heritage Speakers of Spanish, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2018, Austin, USA.
• Kim, Ji Young, and Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura. (February, 2018). The Forms and Functions of Uptalk in Spanish Prosody by Spanish Heritage Speakers in Los Angeles, Heritage Language Conference, Los Angeles, USA.
• Kim, Ji Young, and Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura. (February, 2018). Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish, 2018 Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology, Bloomington, USA.

Posters

• Katsuda, Hironori, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, Kie Zuraw. (June, 2022). He’s got abejas: applying tapping in English-Spanish code-mixed sentences. LabPhon 18.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (June, 2021). Child Production of Spanish Derived Onsets. International Child Phonology Conference, University of Lethbridge, Online/Canada.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (January, 2021). Lexically-Conditioned Child Acquisition of English Empty Onset Repairs. LSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, Online/USA.
• Kim, Ji Young, Matthew Faytak, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, and Erin Mauffray. (December, 2020). Articulation of non-normative Variants of L1 and L2 Spanish Trill /r/. Acoustics Virtually Everywhere 179th Meeting The Acoustical Society of America, Online/USA.
• Mauffray, Erin, Matthew Faytak, Ji Young Kim, and Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura. (December, 2020). Lateral Articulation of the Spanish Trill /r/. Acoustics Virtually Everywhere 179th Meeting The Acoustical Society of America, Online/USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura Gemma. (December 2020). Repairing Onsetless Syllables during Late Childhood.Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, USA.
• Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma. (November, 2020). Repairing Onsetless Syllables during Late Childhood. 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Online/ Boston, USA.
• Kim, Ji Young, and Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura. (November, 2017). Can you Roll your Rhotics? New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46, Madison, USA.

Teaching

Catalan in the United States

Spanish, Portuguese and the Nature of Language

3PG3 Intro Programming Linguistics

2PS3 Psycholinguistics

4D03 Computers&Linguistic Analysis

2PH3 Phonology

1A03 Sounds, Speech and Hearing

LINGUIST 2DD3:Statistics for Language Research

COGSCIL 6D03:Computers and Linguistic Analysis

LINGUIST 2PS3:Psycholinguistics