Presentations

Refereed Papers
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.
Conference Program Submitted Abstract
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.
Conference Program Submitted Abstract Certificate of Participation
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2024). Riding the Waves of Salience: Exploring Spanish Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speaker. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting – LSA 2024, NYC, NY, January 4th - 7th.
Conference Program Submitted Abstract
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2023). Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers. New Waves of Analyzing Linguistic Variation (NWAV 51), NYC, NY, Oct 13th - 17th.
Conference Program Submitted Abstract
Rafael Orozco, Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2014). The Verb as a Predictor of Variable Pronominal Use in Spanish. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43, Chicago, Illinois, October 23rd - 26th.
Rafael Orozco, Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2014). Los efectos condicionantes del verbo en el uso variable de los pronombres personales de sujeto. The Association of Linguistics and Philology Latin America Conference, Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil, July 14th - 19th.
Rafael Orozco, Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2014). Verb-related Constraints on Variable Pronominal Use: Do we have all the Answers?. 7th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, April 3rd - 5th.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2014). El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico. XXIX Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, Feb 27th - March 1st.
Rafael Orozco, Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2014). The Effects of Verb Semantics on Pronominal Expression: A Preliminary Study. XXIX Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Feb 27th - March 1st.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas, Cali Linder (2013). Variable use of subject pronouns in Spanish. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics LXXX, Spartanburg, South Carolina, April 4th - 6th.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2013). Variable use of subject pronouns in the Spanish in Louisiana. 2nd Graduate Symposium – Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, April.
Invited Talks
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 (2023). Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers. Linguistics Program - Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 23rd.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2020). English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses. Intro to Sounds - Boston University, Boston, MA, October 15th.
video Recorded Lecture
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2017). Teaching Foreign Language in the 21st Century Classroom. Louisiana Education Technology Consortium, Baton Rouge, LA, March.
Refereed Posters
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2023). ¿Va primero el verbo OR El sujeto va primero?: Subject-Verb order in Latin American Spanish. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting – LSA 2023, Denver, CO, January 5th– 8th.
Conference Program Submitted Abstract Poster
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2021). Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting – LSA 2021, (Virtual) January 9th.
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Campus / Departmental Talks
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 (2023). Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers. Graduate Research Forum - Boston University, Boston, MA, March 20th.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2020). Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians. Graduate Research Forum - Boston University, Virtual, December 2nd.
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (2013). El uso variable de los pronombres sujetos en el castellano puertorriqueño hablado en Luisiana y Puerto Rico. LSU Spanish Roundtable, Baton Rouge, LA, October.