Cristóbal Lozano

Research

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Research group

WOSLAC research group [Word Order in Second Language Acquisition Corpora] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Main research interests

My main research background is second language acquisition (SLA) of both English and Spanish (L1 Eng - L2 Spa  and  L1 Spa - L2 Eng) from a formal (linguisitc) perspective.

PhD (2003, University of Essex) Universal Grammar and Focus Constraints: The Acquisition of pronouns and word order in non-native Spanish [PhD supervisor: Roger Hawkins] [download PhD: ]

In particular, I am interested in:

• L2 syntax: The acquisition of syntactic phenomena by non-native speakers of a second language.

• The lexicon-syntax interface in SLA: The syntactic effects (word order alternations) of two special certain lexical classes (unaccusatives vs. unergatives) and their acquisition in L2 (both Spanish and English).

• The syntax-discourse interface in SLA: the syntactic effects of discursive phenomena (topic, contrastive focus and presentational focus) and their acquisition in L2. This is a novel area, as little research has been done on this.

• Learner corpora: the creation and use of large language data (corpora) to investigate properties of the L2.

• Research methods and statistics in SLA: experimental design and descriptive & inferential statistics to measure L2 performance data.

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Member of research groups

• Jan 2006 - present: Member of the WOSLAC research group (Word Order in Second Language Acquisition Corpora), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

  • Project Optionality and pseudo optionality in native and non-native grammars (FFI2008-01584/FILO) directed by Dr Amaya Mendikoetxea at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

  • Project The lexicon-syntax and discourse-syntax interfaces: Syntactic and pragmatic factors in the acquisition of L2 English and L2 Spanish (HUM2005-01728/FILO) directed by Dr Amaya Mendikoetxea at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

  • Project The acquisition of word order in L2 English and L2 Spanish: syntactic and pragmatic factors directed by Dr Amaya Mendikoetxea at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• Oct 2004 - Dec 2005: Project Bases para la creación de un subcorpus anotado de aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera: UAM-ICLE directed by Dr Amaya Mendikoetxea at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• October 2000 - December 2003:  Second Language Acquisition Discussion Group directed by Prof Roger Hawkins at the University of Essex.

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