Alejandro Cuza CV - Career Account Web Pages - Purdue University

CURRICULUM VITAE: ALEJANDRO CUZA
2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($15,000)
Government of Ontario, Canada.
2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($15,000)
Government of Ontario, Canada.
PUBLICATIONS (*denotes graduate student)
Refereed journal articles and book chapters
1) Cuza, A. & Pérez-Tattam, R (submitted). Grammatical gender selection and phrasal word
order in the grammar of Spanish/English bilingual children (submitted to Proceedings for
the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, LSRL 42).
2) Cuza, A., Pérez-Tattam, R. *Barajas, E., *Miller, L., & *Sadowski, C. (forthcoming).
The development of tense and aspect morphology in child and adult heritage Spanish:
Implications for heritage language pedagogy. In John Schwieter (Ed.), Innovative
research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
3) Cuza, A., Pérez-Leroux, A. T., & Sánchez, L. (forthcoming, March 2013). The role of
semantic transfer in clitic-drop among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish
bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
4) Cuza, A. (2012). Cross-linguistic influence at the syntax proper: interrogative subjectverb
inversion in heritage Spanish. The International Journal of Bilingualism. March
2012 (published online first).
5) Cuza, A., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Pires, A., & Rothman, J. (2012). The syntax-semantics of
bare and definite plural subjects in the L2 Spanish of English natives. The International
Journal of Bilingualism. March 2012 (published online first).
6) Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). Clitic placement in Spanish/English
bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(2), 221-232.
7) Cuza, A. & *Frank, J. (2011). Transfer effects at the syntax-semantics interface: The case
of double-que questions in heritage Spanish. The Heritage Language Journal, 8(2), 66-
89.
8) Pérez-Leroux, A.T., Cuza, A. & Thomas, D. (2011). From parental attitudes to input
conditions: Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto. In Kim Potowski and
Jason Rothman (Eds.), Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking Societies (pp. 49-
176). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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