Department of Spanish and Portuguese

My main area of research is the intersection between second language acquisition (SLA) and sociolinguistics. My dissertation, which follows a variationist framework, focuses on the acquisition of mood in L2 Spanish. I am also interested in the variation of phonological and morphosyntactic phenomena, and the perception and the linguistic attitudes towards socio-phonetic variables. I have taught Spanish and Linguistic courses at Indiana University and at the University of Puerto Rico.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications 

• Galarza, I. (submitted). La variación morfosintáctica en el español de Puerto Rico. Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES).  
• Delgado-Díaz, G. & Galarza, I. (forthcoming). Análisis sociofonético de la vibrante múltiple en el español de Puerto Rico.  
• Delgado-Díaz, G & Galarza, I. (2023). The narrative present: Priming effects in personal narratives. In S. Balasch and M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.) Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics. 
• Pollock, M., Delgado-Díaz, G., Galarza, I., Díaz-Campos, M. & Willis, E. (2023). The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish: A usage-based analysis of variable trill /r/ production in Caracas, Venezuela, and Caguas, Puerto Rico. Selected proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium.  Delgado-Díaz, G & Galarza, I. (in press). The past is the present: A discursive analysis of the simple present with a past temporal reference.  
• Delgado-Díaz, G., Galarza, I., & Díaz-Campos, M. (2022). Que se coman la /s/ no me molesta: A production and perception analysis of coda /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish. In L. A. Ortiz-López & E. Suárez Büdenbender (Eds.) Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions.  
• Delgado-Díaz, G, Galarza, I. & Díaz-Campos, M. (2021). Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings: Providing evidence from production and perception data in a speech community. In M. Díaz-Campos & S. Sessarego (Eds.) Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan (pp. 125-154). 
• Díaz-Campos, M., Galarza, I. & Delgado-Díaz, G. (2017). The sociolinguistic profile of ser and estar in Cuban Spanish: An analysis of oral speech. In A. Cuza (Ed.) Contemporary Approaches to Cuban Spanish Dialectology (pp. 135-162). 
• Delgado-Díaz, G. & Galarza, I. (2016). Sociolinguistic implications on perception: The case of the posterior /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish. In A. Cuza et al. (Eds.) Selected proceedings of the 19th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (pp. 241-262). 
• Delgado-Díaz, G. & Galarza, I. (2015). ¿Que comiste [x]amón? A closer look at the neutralization of /h/ and posterior /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish. In E. W. Willis et al. (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (pp. 70-82). 
• Willis, E., Delgado-Díaz, G. & Galarza, I. (2015). Allophonic variation of the velar fricative /x/ in Puerto Rican Spanish. In Erik W. Willis et al. (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (pp. 52-69).