Rena Torres Cacoullos
Liberal Arts Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802 USA
Email: rena@psu.edu
CV
Research Interests: Language variation and change, Grammaticalization, Language contact
- PI, NSF Grant BCS-1624966: Code-switching in spontaneous bilingual speech
- PI, NSF Grant BCS-1019112: Evaluating convergence via code-switching: Cross-linguistic priming, rates, and the nature of subject expression
- Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
- Co-Editor, Language Variation and Change
Recent Papers
Code-Switching and Variable Equivalence:
Torres Cacoullos, R. & LaCasse, D. 2024. Bilingual clause combining: A Variable Equivalence hypothesis for conjunction choice. International Journal of Bilingualism.
Pattichis, R., LaCasse, D., Trawick, S., & Torres Cacoullos, R. 2023. Code-switching metrics using Intonation Units. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Torres Cacoullos, R. & Vélez Avilés, J. 2023. Mixing adjectives: A variable equivalence hypothesis for bilingual word order conflicts. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism .pdf
Torres Cacoullos, R. & LaCasse, D. 2024. Lone-words are grammatically loanwords. Chicago Linguistic Society 60 .pdf
Bilinguals can keep their linguistic systems separate and intact:
LaCasse, D. & Torres Cacoullos, R. 2023. Simplification in bilinguals’ parallel structures? Spanish and English main-and-complement clauses. Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas, M. Waltermire & K. Bove (eds) .pdf
Torres Cacoullos, R. & Travis, C. 2021. Alternating or mixing languages? English and Spanish: World Languages in Interaction. D. Pérez, M. Hundt, J. Kabatek, D. Schreier (eds.) .pdf
Structures and Processes:
Travis, C. & Torres Cacoullos, R. 2023. Form and function co-variation: Obligation modals in Australian English. Language Variation and Change 35.3 .pdf
Travis, C. & Torres Cacoullos, R. 2021. Categories and frequency: Cognition verbs in Spanish subject expression. Languages 2021 6, 126.
Torres Cacoullos, R. & Travis, C. 2019. Variationist typology: Shared probabilistic constraints across (non-)null subject languages. Linguistics 57.3 .pdf