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Isabel Velázquez is Harold E. Spencer Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures. Her area of research includes sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the U.S./Mexico border, and the role of language in identity formations of US Latin@s. Her current research focuses on linguistic maintenance and loss among Latinx families in the Midwest. Velázquez received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Errapel Mejías-Vicandi is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department. His main research interest is the study of subordination: functional/rhetorical properties of hypotactic clauses, intersubjectivity and the role of mood in interpretation. He has published articles on formal syntax, formal semantics, cognitive semantics and pragmatics. He is currently working on concession and its role in argumentation. Mejías-Vicandi received his Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from the University of California at San Diego.