Manuel Pulido-Azpíroz
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
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Education:
PhD, Dual Title in Spanish Linguistics and Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University
MA, Spanish Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University
MA, Foreign Language Teaching, the University of Navarra
Research Interests:
Second language acquisition, usage-based approaches, desirable difficulties in learning, multiword units, eye-tracking, brain event-related potentials (ERPs)
Biography:
My research investigates how adults process and learn a new language with limited input, as well as how they generalize their knowledge to novel contexts. I also explore how individual-based cognitive differences account for diversity among learners. Much of my work focuses on the bilingual lexicon, and particularly on multi-word units that are specific to a second language. My students and I approach these questions by using various methods in the CoALA lab (Cognition of Adult Language Acquisition), such as electrophysiology (ERPs), eye-tracking and corpus data.
Selected publications:
- Pulido, Manuel F. (2023). Generalizing knowledge of L2 collocations: The influence of within- language and cross-language similarity on acceptability and ERPs. Language Learning, 3(73). http://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12543
- Pulido, Manuel. F. (2022). Processing conventional and non-conventional multiword units: Evidence of similarity-based generalization from judgements and brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. First View. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2157028
- Pulido, Manuel F. (2022) Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing and retrieval. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0043
- 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
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