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Kimberly L. Geeslin | Faculty

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Office: Ballantine Hall 853 / 804
TEL: 856-5470 / 855-6691
Email: kgeeslin

Education

Ph.D., 1999. University of Arizona
M.A., 1996. University of Arizona
B.A., 1993. University of New Hampshire

Specializations

• Second Language Acquisition (issues in the acquisition of Spanish by English-speakers)
• The intersection of sociolinguistics and Second Language Learning (language variation and change)

Selected Publications

Books and Edited Volumes:

• Geeslin, K. & Díaz-Campos, M. (Eds.). (2012). Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2008). Language Acquisition, Language Variation and Copula Choice in Spanish. Special volume (11, 3, 273 - 387) of Bilingualism: Language and Congnition. Cambridge University Press.
• Geeslin, K. (2005). Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries to Improve the Analysis of Second Language Data: A Study of Copula Choice with Adjectives in Spanish. Munich: LINCOM Publishers. 313 pages.
• Lee, J., Geeslin, K. & Clements, J.C. (Eds.). (2002). Structure, Meaning and Acquisition in Spanish: Selected Papers from the Fourth Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 335 pages.

Refereed Articles:

• Geeslin, K. (forthcoming). An Analysis of Co-occurrence of the Spanish Copulas with adjectives: How variable are they really? In Lui, Feng-Hsi (ed.). Festricft for Rudolph Troike. Taiwan: Academia Sinica.
• Geeslin, K. & Fafulas, S. (2012). Variation of the Simple Present and Present Progressive Forms: A Comparison of Native and Non-native Speakers. Refereed Proceedings for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K., Garcia-Amaya, L., Hasler, M., Henrikson, N., & Killam, J. (2012). A study of the second language acquisition of the present perfect in an immersion context. Refereed Proceedings for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K. (2011).Variation in L2 Spanish: The state of the discipline. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4(2), 461-517.
• Geeslin, K. (2011). The acquisition of variation in second language Spanish: How to identify and catch a moving target. In M. Díaz-Campos (ed.), Handbook of Spanish Sociolinguistics, pp. 303-320. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2011). The Acquisition of variation in second-language Spanish: An agenda for integrating studies of the L2 sound system. Journal of Applied Linguistics 5 (2), 137-157.
• Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2011). Using Sociolinguistic Analyses of Discourse-Level Features to Expand Research on L2 Variation: Native and Non-Native Contrasts in Forms of Spanish Subject Expression. In L. Plonsky and M. Schierloh (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2009 Second Language Research Forum: Diverse Contributions to SLA, pp. 16-30. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Gudmestad, A. & Geeslin, K. (2011). Assessing the Use of Multiple Forms in Variable Contexts: The Relationship between Linguistic Factors and Future-Time Reference in Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4(1), 3-34.
• Diaz-Campos, M. & Geeslin, K. (2011). Copula Use in the Spanish of Venezuela: Social and Linguistic Sources of Variation Spanish. Spanish in Context, 8(1), 73-94.
• Geeslin, K. (2010). Beyond “naturalistic”: On the role of task characteristics and the importance of multiple elicitation methods. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3(2), 501-520.
• Gudmestad, A. & Geeslin, K. (2010). Exploring the Roles of Redundancy and Ambiguity in Variable Subject Expression: A Comparison of Native and Non-native Speakers. In C. Borgonovo, M. Español-Echevarría & P. Prevost, (eds.), Refereed Proceedings from the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 270-283. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K., Garcia-Amaya, L., Hasler, M., Henrikson, N., & Killam, J. (2010). The SLA of direct object pronouns in an immersion environment where use is variable. In C. Borgonovo, M. Español- Echevarría & P. Prevost, (eds.), Refereed Proceedings from the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 246-259. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2010). An exploration of the range and frequency of occurrence of forms in potentially-variable structures in second language Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32, 3, 433-463.
• Henriksen, N., Geeslin, K. & E. Willis (2010). The Development of L2 Spanish Intonation During a Study Abroad Immersion Program in León, Spain: Global Contours and Final Boundary Movements. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics3(1), 113-162.
• Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2008). Variable subject expression in second-language Spanish: A comparison of native and non-native speakers. In M. Bowles, R. Foote, S. Perpiñán, & R. Bhatt (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum, pp. 69-85. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2008). Variation in Contemporary Spanish: Linguistic Predictors of Estar in four Cases of Language Contact. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 3, 365-380.
• Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2008). Does Bilingualism Accelerate Language Change? The Case of Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals and Copula Choice. In R. Temmerman, F. Boers, & J. Darquennes (eds.) Multilinguilism and Applied Comparative Liinguistics, pp. 83-109. Volume 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Geeslin, K. & Gudmestad, A. (2008). Comparing interview and written elicitation tasks in native and non- native use: Do speakers do what we think they do? In J. Bruhn de Garavito & E. Valenzuela (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 64-77. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  
• Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2007). The SLA of Variable Structures: Analyzing Obligatory and Variable Contexts. ITL: International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 153, 25-51.
• Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2007). Spanish in Contact with Galician: Exploring Language Learning and Language Use. In K. Potowski and R. Cameron (eds.), Spanish in contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries, pp. 253-273. John Benjamins.
• Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Copula Choice: Following Development in Variable Structures. In N. Sagarra & J. Toribio (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 144-156. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• Geeslin, K. (2006). Linguistic contextual features and variation in L2 data elicitation. In C. Klee & T. Face (eds.), Selected proceedings from the 7thConference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as a first and second language, pp. 74-85.. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K. & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2006). The Second Language Acquisition of Variable Structures in Spanish by Portuguese Speakers. Language Learning 56 (1), 53-107.
• Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2006). Interpretation of Spanish copula choice by Portuguese near-native speakers. In C. Abello-Contesse, R. Chacón-Beltrán, M.D. López-Jiménez, & M.M. Torreblanca-López, (eds.), Age in L2 Acquisition and Teaching (pp. 193-209). Pieterlen, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
• Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Geeslin, K. (2006). Copula choice in the Spanish of Galicia: The effects of bilingualism on language use. Spanish in Context, 3(1).
• Geeslin, K.  (2003). A comparison of copula choice in advanced and native Spanish. Language Learning, 53, 4, 703-764.
• Geeslin, K. (2003). The Role of adjectival features in the second language acquisition of copula choice. In P. Kempchinsky & C. Piñeros, (Eds.), Theory, Practice and Acquisition: Papers from the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, (pp. 332-351).  Cascadilla Press.
• Geeslin, K.  (2002). The second language acquisition of copula choice and its relationship to language change. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24, (3), 419-451.
• Geeslin, K.  (2002). Semantic transparency as a predictor of copula choice in second language acquisition.  Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 40 (2), 439-468.
• Geeslin, K.  (2001). Changing norms, moving targets and the SLA of copula choice.  Spanish Applied Linguistics, 5 (1-2), 29-55.
• Geeslin, K.  (2000). A new approach to the second language acquisition of copula choice in Spanish. In R. Leow & C. Sanz (Eds.), Spanish Applied Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 1999 Conference on the L1 & L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, (pp. 50-66).  Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Honors and Awards

• Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2002, 2008, 2012.
• Department of Spanish & Portuguese, GSAC Outstanding Mentor Award, 2006
• Indiana University FACET Award, 2005
• British Academy Project Development Grant (reference number: SG-40255), "An investigation of the acquisition and use of Spanish", 2005-2006, (£6030). [with Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes]
• Active Learning Grant for development of S428, Indiana University.
• Faculty Summer Fellowship, Indiana University.

Current Research Projects

• The second language acquisition of geographically-indexed variants (e.g. leísmo, interdental fricative) in a study abroad setting [collaborative projects with Dr. Erik Willis and Nicholas Henriksen, Maria Hasler Barker, Lorenzo García-Amaya and Jason Killam]
• A comparative study of advanced non-native and native speaker use of variable structures in Spanish (e.g., future and past time reference, copula contrast, mood use and subject expression) [collaborative project with Dr. Aarnes Gudmestad]
• A study of the relationship between vocabulary size, copula choice and the second language acquisition of variation in the [copula + adjective] structure
• The second language acquisition of intonation [collaborative project with Dr. Erik Willis and Nicholas Henriksen]