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For entire list of publications go to my current CV. To request a specific publication send me an e-mail montrul@illinois.edu.

Books

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• Montrul, S. 2012. El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante [Bilingualism in teh Spanish-speaking World] (copyright year 2013). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (pp. xii+ 352)
• Arregui, K., Fagyal, Z., Montrul, S. and Tremblay, A. (Eds.) 2010. Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Montrul, S. 2008. Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism. Re-examining the Age Factor. [Series on Studies in Bilingualism] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Slabakova, R., Montrul, S., and Prévost, P. (Eds.) 2006. Inquiries in Linguistic Development. In Honor of Lydia White. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. vi + 358)
• Montrul, S. 2004. The Acquisition of Spanish. Morphosyntactic Development in Monolingual and Bilingual L1 Acquisition and in Adult L2 Acquisition. [Series on Language Acquisition and Language Disorders] Amsterdam: John Benjamins (pp. xv + 411).
• Montrul, S. and Ordóñez, F. (Eds.) 2003. Linguistic Theory and Language Development in Hispanic Languages.  Selected Papers from the 5th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 2001 Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (pp. 497)

Special Issues of Journals

• Montrul, S. (Ed.) Thematic issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2011 (volume 32, 2) “Understanding the linguistic competence of heritage language speakers" Volume 28, Summer 2011. (with introduction)
• Montrul, S. (Ed.) Thematic issue of The Heritage Language Journal 2011 on “Spanish heritage speakers”. (with introduction)
• Montrul, S. (Ed.) 2001. Thematic issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 23,2: Representational and developmental Issues at the lexico-syntactic Interface: The L2 acquisition of verb meaning. (with introduction)
• Montrul, S. (Ed.) 1999. Spanish Applied Linguistics 3,2. Special issue: The Acquisition of Spanish Se. (with introduction)
• Montrul, S. and Bruhn de Garavito, J. (Eds.) 1999. Second Language Research, 15, 2. Special issue:  Generative Approaches to the second language acquisition of Spanish. (with introduction).

Articles

•  Bowles, M. and Montrul, S. (accepted). Heritage Spanish speakers in university language courses: A decade of difference. ADFL Bulletin
• Montrul, S., de la Fuente, I., Davidson, J., and Foote, R. (in press). The role of experience in the acquisition and production of diminutives and gender in Spanish: Evidence from L2 learners and heritage speakers. Second Language Research
• Montrul, S. and Sánchez-Walker, N. (in press). Incomplete Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers. Language Acquisition.
• Ionin, T. Montrul, S. and Crivos, M. (in press). A bidirectional study on the acquisition of plural NP interpretation in English and Spanish. Applied Psycholinguistics
• Montrul, S. and Foote, R. 2012. Age of Acquisition Interactions in Bilingual Lexical Access: A study of the weaker language in L2 learners and heritage speakers. The International Journal of Bilingualism 16, 2. OnlineFirst, May 8, 2012.
• Montrul, S. 2012. Is the heritage language like a second language? EUROSLA Yearbook, 12, 1-29.
• Montrul, S. and Ionin, T. 2012. Dominant language transfer in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners in the interpretation of definite articles. The Modern Language Journal 96, 1, 70-94.
• Montrul, S., Bhatt, R., Bhatia, A. 2012. Erosion of Case and Agreement in Hindi Heritage Speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2, 141-176.
• Montrul, S. 2011. First language retention and attrition in an adult Guatemalan adoptee. Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2, 276-311.
• Ionin, T., Montrul, S., Kim, J-H., Philippov, V. 2011.  Genericity distinctions and the interpretation of determiners in L2 acquisition.  Language Acquisition 18, 242-280.
• Montrul, S. 2011. Morphological errors in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33, 2, 155-161.
• Montrul, S. and Perpiñán, S. 2011. Assessing differences and similarities between instructed L2 learners and heritage language learners in their knowledge of Spanish Tense-Aspect and Mood (TAM) Morphology. The Heritage Language Journal 8, 1, 90-133. http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages
• Montrul, S. 2011. Interfaces in Bilingualism. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4, 221-233.
• Ionin, T., Montrul, S. and Santos, H. 2011. An Experimental Investigation of the Expression of Genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Lingua, 121, 963-985.
• Montrul, S. 2011. Interfaces and incomplete acquisition. Lingua, Special issue on Interfaces in language acquisition, 212, 4, 591-604.
• Montrul, S., Dias, R. and Santos, H. 2011. Clitics and object expression in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese. Structural similarity matters for transfer. Second Language Research 27, 1, 21-58.
• Montrul, S. and Ionin, T. 2010. Transfer effects in the interpretation of definite articles by Spanish heritage speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13, 4, 449-473.
• Montrul, S. 2010. Current issues in heritage language acquisition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 30, 3-23.33.
• Montrul, S. 2010. Dominant language transfer in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers. Special issue of Second Language Research 26, 3, 293-327.
• Ionin, T. and Montrul, S. 2010. The role of L1-transfer in the interpretation of articles with definite plurals in L2-English. Language Learning, 60, 4, 877-925.
• Montrul, S. and Bowles, M. 2010. Is grammar instruction beneficial for heritage language learners? Dative case marking in Spanish. The Heritage Language Journal 7, 1, 47-73. http://www.heritagelanguages.org/  
• Kim, J-H., Montrul, S. and Yoon, J. 2010. Dominant language influence in acquisition and attrition of binding: Interpretation of the Korean reflexive caki. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13, 73-84.
• Montrul, S. 2010. How similar are L2 learners and heritage speakers? Spanish clitics and word order. Applied Psycholinguistics 31, 167-207.
• Montrul, S., Dias, R. and Santos, H. 2009. On some null subject parameter-related properties in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese. Special issue of Revista Estudos da Língua(gem) 7, 2, 163-198.
• Montrul, S. 2009. Incomplete acquisition of Tense-Aspect and Mood in Spanish heritage speakers: Special issue of The International Journal of Bilingualism 13, 2, 239-269.
• Montrul, S. and Bowles, M. 2009. Back to basics: Differential Object Marking under incomplete acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12, 3, 363–383.
• Montrul, S. 2009. Re-examining the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: What can early bilinguals tell us? Special issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2009, 31, 2, 225-257.
• Montrul, S. and Yoon, J. 2009. Putting parameters in their proper place. A Response to Lardiere. Second Language Research 25, 2, 287-307.
• Kim, J-H, Montrul, S. and Yoon, J. 2009. Binding interpretation of anaphors in Korean heritage speakers. Language Acquisition 16, 1, 3-35.
• Montrul, S. 2008. Form-meaning mappings in the aspectual domain: What about the L1? Invited commentary on Bruhn de Garavito and Valenzuela. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11, 337-339.
• Montrul, S. 2008. Second language acquisition welcomes the heritage language speaker.    Opportunities of a new field. Review article. Second Language Research 24, 4, 487-506.
• Montrul, S., Foote, R. and Perpiñán, S. 2008. Gender agreement in adult second language learners and Spanish heritage speakers: The effects of age and context of acquisition. Language Learning 58, 3, 503–553.
• Montrul, S. and Potowski, K. 2007. Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 11, 3, 301–328.
  
• Montrul, S. 2006. On the bilingual competence of Spanish heritage speakers: Syntax, lexical-semantics and processing. International Journal of Bilingualism 10,1, 37–69.
• Montrul, S. 2005. On knowledge and development of unaccusativity in Spanish L2 acquisition. Linguistics 43, 6, 1153–1190.
• Montrul, S. 2005. Second language acquisition and first language loss in adult early bilinguals: Exploring some differences and similarities. Second Language Research 21, 3, 199–249.
• Montrul, S. 2004. Subject and object expression in Spanish heritage speakers: A case of morpho-syntactic convergence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7, 2, 125–142.
• Montrul, S. 2004. Psycholinguistic evidence for split intransitivity in Spanish L2. Applied Psycholinguistics 25, 2, 239-267.
• Slabakova, R. and Montrul, S. 2003. Genericity and aspect in L2 acquisition. Language Acquisition 11, 3, 165-196.
• Montrul, S. and Slabakova, R. 2003. Competence similarities between native and near-native speakers: An investigation of the preterite/imperfect contrast in Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25, 3, 351-398.
• Duffield, N., White, L. Bruhn de Garavito, J., Montrul, S. and Prévost, P. 2002. Clitic placement in L2 French: Evidence from sentence matching. Journal of Linguistics 38, 3, 487-525.
• Montrul, S. 2002. Incomplete acquisition and attrition of Spanish tense/aspect distinctions in adult bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 5, 1, 39-68.  
• Montrul, S. 2001. The acquisition of causative and inchoative verbs in L2 Turkish. Language Acquisition 9, 1-58.
• Montrul, S. 2001. L1-constrained variability in the L2 acquisition of argument structure changing morphology with causative verbs. Second Language Research 17, 2, 144-194.
• Montrul, S. 2001. Agentive verbs of manner of motion in Spanish and English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 23, 2, 171-207.
• Montrul, S. 2001. Causatives and transitivity in L2 English. Language Learning 51, 1, 51-106.
• Montrul, S. 2000. Transitivity alternations in second language acquisition: Toward a modular view of transfer. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 22, 2, 229-274.
• Montrul, S. 1999. Se o no Se: A look at transitive and intransitive verbs. Spanish Applied Linguistics 3, 2, 145-194.
• Montrul, S. 1999. Causative errors with unaccusative verbs in Spanish as a second language. Second Language Research 15, 2, 191-219.
• Montrul, S. 1998. The L2 acquisition of dative experiencer subjects. Second Language Research 14, 27-61.
• Montrul, S. 1997.  On the parallels between diachronic change and interlanguage grammars: the L2 acquisition of the Spanish dative case system. Spanish Applied Linguistics 1, 87-113.