Juan Berríos

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Assistant Professor
Selected Publications:

Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (in press). Frequency and phonological effects on variable noun-adjective order in a spontaneous-speech corpus of Venezuelan Spanish. Spanish in Context.

Kanwit, M., Berríos, J., & Hernández Hurtado, A. (2026). Communicative competence and the acquisition of variation by heritage speakers abroad: Main methods, principal findings, and future directions. Spanish as a Heritage Language, 6(1), 14–38. https://doi.org/10.5744/shl.2026.3596

Fafulas, S., Méndez, L., Berríos, J., Perry, J., Holt, Y., & Winnick, C. (2026). "Subject expression and cross-linguistic interference among bilingual Latino children in eastern North Carolina." International Journal of Bilingualism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069261422011 

Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (2024). Progressive aspect: variation between synthetic and analytic forms in L1 and L2 Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17(2), 161-195. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2024-2008 

Berríos, J., Swain, A., & Fricke, M. (2023). Implementing the map task in applied linguistics research: What, how, and why. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), 100081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100081 

Education:

Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Spanish, Auburn University
B.A. (Licenciatura), Translation and Interpreting, Universidad Central de Venezuela