I am a second year PhD student currently working on the relationship between language processing and diachronic change. I investigate where and why heritage speaker grammars differ from monolingual grammars. To do this I use different psycolinguistics methods, to evaluate language processing and production.
Together with my colleague Daniel we presented our ongoing worn as part of the project EVOLVE . We talked about how diachronic language change can help us predict changes in heritage speaker grammar (although not always) in Spanish and Portuguese.
I presented my work on the acceptability of clitic doubling in Rioplatense and Canarian Spanish and how that may inform our predictions for the heritage population.
I presented my predictions for the planned experiments on the acceptability of clitic doubling in monolingual and heritage speakers of Spanish
I did a 5 year university degree where I studied linguistics, world literature, classics and also received training as a teacher.
Martinez Bruera, M., Weingärtner, D., Flores, C., Lago, S. & Rinke, R. (2023) EVOLVE: relating diachronic change and heritage languages. Talk at Romanistentag, Leipzig, Germany, September 24-27.
Pañeda, P., Kandel, M., Bahmanian, N., Martinez Bruera, M., Phillips, C. & Lago, S.,(2023) Linguistic representations matter for pronoun production: evidence from grammatical gender attraction. Poster at AMLaP 2023, San Sebastian, Spain, August 31–September 2.
Martinez Bruera, M. (2023) ¿Podemos predecir el cambio lingüístico en poblaciones de hablantes de herencia? El caso del doblado de clíticos de acusativo. Talk at Predoctoral colloquium on Spanish as a heritage language in Germany. Heidelberg University. June 23rd.
Kandel, M., Pañeda, C., Bahmanian, N., Martinez Bruera, M., Phillips, C. & Lago, S., (2023). Number and gender attraction in Spanish pronoun production. Poster at HSP 2023, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 9–11.
Martinez Bruera, M (2022): Diachronic change and bilingualism: acceptability of clitic doubling in monolingual and heritage Spanish. Poster at Workshop on L2 sentence and discourse processing. University of Cologne. November 18th.
Martinez Bruera, M (2022): ¿Competencia o Ilusión? El desgaste de la lengua segunda después de la educación bilingüe en Argenitna. [on line] Bachelor's Thesis. Universidad Católica Argentina
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