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Manuel Pulido-Azpíroz

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics

246 Burrowes
University Park , PA 16802

Office Hours:

  • Tu/Th 3:30-5:00 PM or by appt.

Curriculum Vitae

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Education:

  1. MA, Foreign Language Teaching, the University of Navarra
  2. MA, Spanish Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University
  3. Ph.D., Dual Title in Spanish Linguistics and Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

SLA, eye-tracking, ERPs, desirable difficulties in learning, multiword units, usage-based approaches.

Biography:

My main research interests lie in second language processing and learning, and in exploring the connection between input properties, processing and learning outcomes. I approach these questions by using electrophysiology (ERPs) and eye-tracking. Some of my recent work focused on understanding the cognitive mechanisms involved in processing and learning multi-word units (i.e., conventional expressions). In my current work, I explore a "desirable difficulties" approach to second language learning. In a related line of research, I investigate how non-native speakers generalize what they learn in a new language. 

Selected publications: 

  • Pulido, Manuel F. (2021). Individual chunking ability predicts efficient or shallow L2 processing: Eye-tracking evidence from multiword units in relative clauses. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 4004. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607621 
  • Pulido, Manuel F. (2021). Native language inhibition predicts more successful second language learning: Evidence of two ERP pathways during learning. Neuropsychologia. 152, 107732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107732 
  • Pulido, Manuel F., & Paola E. Dussias (2020). Desirable difficulties while learning collocations in a second language: Conditions that induce L1 interference improve learning. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(3), 652-667. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000622 
  • Pulido, Manuel F. & Paola E. Dussias (2019). The Neural Correlates of Conflict Detection and Resolution During Multiword Lexical Selection: Evidence from Bilinguals and Monolinguals. Brain Sciences, 9, 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9050110 

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