Investigación

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2025). Covariation & salience in linguistic contact: a sociophonetic study of liquid variation in Boston Spanish. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University.

Daniel G. Erker, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2024). Variation, Contact, and Change in Boston Spanish: How social meaning shapes stylistic practice and bilingual optimization. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17(2), 223-249.

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2023). ¿Va primero el verbo? OR ¿El sujeto va primero?: Subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1). 5542.

Daniel G. Erker, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2022). Qué decimos cuando no decimos nada: Claves del cambio lingüístico inducido por contacto en las pausas llenas del español conversacional. Estudios del Observatorio, 80, pp. 1-31.

Daniel G. Erker, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2022). What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers. Observatorio Studies, 80, pp. 1- 29.

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2025). Covariation & salience in linguistic contact: a sociophonetic study of liquid variation in Boston Spanish. Dissertation Defense - Boston University, Boston, MA, April 7th.

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2024). Salient Features, Strong Identities: Social Meaning and Stylistic Choices in Boston Spanish. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, December 3rd.

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2024). How Salience Influences Dialectal Persistence and Covariation: Insights from Boston's Spanish-Speaking Community. New Waves of Analyzing Linguistic Variation (NWAV 52), Miami, FL, November 7th - 9th.

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2024). Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation. The International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes (IDEOLING), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 17th - 19th.