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Modern Languages 544
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FALL 2026 OFFICE HOURS: Make an appointment here: https://anacfall2026oh.youcanbook.me/
Tuesdays 11:30 am-1:00 pm in ML 544 and Wednesdays 2:30-4:00 pm on Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/my/anamcarvalho




Carvalho, Ana Maria
Professor

Dr. Ana M. Carvalho is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where she leads the Sociolinguistic Research Lab (SoReLa). She serves as Chair of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program (SLAT), is an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies, and holds a courtesy appointment in Linguistics. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, language contact, and bilingualism, with a particular emphasis on language variation and change. She is especially intrigued by the development of parallel variable grammars in situations of prolonged language contact on borderlands. She mentors students who share her research interests and also those studying language attitudes, language ideology, code-switching, sociolinguistic corpus development, and variationist approaches to language and dialect acquisition. Outside work, she enjoys yoga, fiction, traveling, and cooking.


Most of her publications are available here: 

https://arizona.academia.edu/AnaCarvalho

 

Currently Teaching

SPAN 584A – Spanish Sociolinguistics I : Language Contact

This course presents an overview of sociolinguistic issues pertaining to the contact between languages in general and the contact between Spanish with other languages in particular. We will discuss basic concepts that emerge in this field of inquiry, such as diglossia, language maintenance, attrition, shift, convergence, code-switching, and borrowing, and apply these concepts to our discussion of contexts that involve Spanish. We will read about speech communities where Spanish is the majority language (in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America) and the minority language (in the United States). We will compare these situations and discuss how linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influence the output of contact, from both qualitative and quantitative viewpoints.