Sarah Hubbel

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Languages at UGA. In 2014, I earned a B.A. in both Psychology and Spanish from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI. I earned a M.A. from the University of Georgia in Spanish (Linguistics) in 2016 and returned to UGA in Fall 2017 to pursue a doctoral degree in Romance Languages. 

My general research interests include language contact, morphosyntactic variation, group L2 language acquisition, L3/Ln acquisition, and indigenous languages and cultures. In my Master's Thesis I conducted an empirical research study on the acquisition of Quechua mid-vowels by L1 English L2 Spanish learners during an abroad program in Cusco, Peru. My current dissertation project investigates the morphosyntactic outcomes of language contact between Spanish and Quechua-- two languages with vastly different linguistic typologies. This project has the wider objective of contributing to a model of language contact that has predictive power.

I am also currently the Instructor of Quechua at UGA for QUEC1001, QUEC1002, QUEC2001, and QUEC2002. If you are interested in taking a Quechua class, please click on the 'Quechua Program' link above or email me at sbigger@uga.edu. If you are interested in learning Quechua but are not able to take a class, you may attend our weekly virtual Quechua Conversation Table. All levels are welcome. Runasimita rimasunchis!