Published Research and Conference Presentations

One of the things I most enjoy about conducting research is participating in forums where thoughts, new ideas, and empirical evidence can be shared with colleagues. I have had the opportunity to present my research at regional, national and international meetings, including the American Association of Applied Linguistics, the Hispanic Linguistics Society, and the Georgetown University Roundtable of Linguistics, among others. I’ve also published my work in edited volumes through John Benjamins.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Michalski, I., & Cook, M. “Measuring the Impact of Preservice Teacher Training: A Novel Assessment of Attitudes Toward NonStandard Features of English ”

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Michalski, I. Language attitudes and identity in Yucatán, México: Potential subjective factors influencing variation, change, and standardization in a regional contact variety of Spanish. [in preparation]

Michalski, I. Variable case-marking with Spanish-Yucatec Maya bilingual compound verbs:  Comparing acceptability ratings by Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Henderson, C., Lindqvist, C., & Michalski, I. Variable interpretation of verbal moods: A conceptual replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014). [in preparation]

Michalski, I. The social meaning of Spanish future-time expression: A look at L2 perception and pedagogical materials. [data analysis stage]

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Michalski, I., & Gudmestad, A. (In Press). An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics in the study of sociolinguistic awareness in additional-language Spanish. In Research at the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Balam, O., Pérez Leutza, L., Michalski, I., & Parafita Couto, M. del C. (2024). A semantic analysis of bilingual compound verbs in two contact Spanish communities. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(1), 140–170.

Michalski, I. (2023). L2 Sociolinguistic Perception of Stylistic Variation: Attitudes toward two variable linguistic features of Spanish. In Fernández Cuenca, S., Judy, T. & Miller, L. Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Diachronic, Regional and Learner Profile Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Geeslin, K. L., Daidone, D., Linford, B., Long, A. Y., Michalski, I., & Solon, M. (2018). L2 classrooms as multifaceted sources of input: The synergy of variationist and usage-based approaches. In A. Tyler, L. Ortega, M. Uno, & H.I. Park (Eds), Usage-Inspired L2 Instruction: Researched Pedagogy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Michalski, I. (2017). Morphological case and argument structure variation with hybrid Spanish-Yucatec Maya verbs: ‘hacer + V” in monolingual Yucatán Spanish. Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Michalski, I. & Gudmestad, A. “An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics in the study of sociolinguistic perception in additional language Spanish” Paper presented in “Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: A panel in Honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin.” At New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52, Miami Beach, FL, November 7-9, 2024.

Michalski, I. “Variable case-marking with Spanish-Yucatec Maya bilingual compound verbs:  Comparing acceptability ratings by Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals” Paper to be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52, Miami Beach, FL, November 7-9, 2024.

Michalski, I., & Gudmestad, A. “Avoiding native-speaker bias in the study of sociolinguistic awareness in additional-language Spanish: An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Houston, TX, March 16-19, 2024

Pérez Leutza, L., Balam, O., Michalski, I., Parafita Couto, M.C. “Bilingual compound verbs: a comparison of Orange Walk, Belize and The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Paper presented at the International Conference on Multilingual Theories and Practices, April 20-21, 2023, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

Michalski, I. “A small-scale detailed analysis of sociolinguistic awareness among heritage Spanish speakers: Social perceptions of five variable linguistic features” Paper presented at the 10th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, April 13-15, 2023, Cambridge, MA.

Cook, M. & Michalski, I. “Pre-Service Teachers: Attitudinal Responses Toward Non-Standard, Socially Variable Features of American English” Paper presented at the 2023 Council For Exceptional Children Convention and Expo, March 1-4, 2023, Louisville, KY.

Michalski, I. “Perceived dialect and language variation as conditioning factors of language attitudes in Spanish.” Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, November 3-5, 2022.

Michalski, I. “Listener characteristics and sociolinguistic perception in L2 Spanish” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh, PA, March 25-29, 2022.

Michalski, I. “Sociolinguistic Perception in L2 Spanish: Learner attitudes toward stylistic variation” Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, October 7-9, 2021

Michalski, I. “Exploring sociolinguistic perception in Spanish: First and second language attitudes toward three variable structures” Paper presented at The Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting September 23-25, 2021

Michalski, I. “Linguistic landscapes and the university Spanish language curriculum: Fostering awareness and engagement with local linguistic diversity” Poster Presentation at 2019 Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies, AP Reading Professional Night, June 17, Cincinnati, OH

Michalski, I. “The case of bilingual verbs and their objects: A syntactic analysis of dative/accusative case-marking and Hacer + MayaV in Yucatán Spanish” Paper presented at BLS 43, February 3-5, 2017, Berkeley, CA.

Michalski, I. “Yucatecan Verbs that ‘do’: A syntactic analysis of Hacer + MayaV in Yucatan Spanish” Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, October 5-8, 2016, Washington D.C.

Michalski, I. “Aid and development work in bilingual migrant communities in the Dominican Republic: A language policy challenge” Paper presented in “Costs and Benefits, Investments and Returns: Neoliberal Calculations behind Language Instruction in International Cooperation Contexts” a Colloquium of the 2016 Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, April 8-12, 2016, Orlando, FL.

Michalski, I. “Spanish and Yucatec Maya Language Contact: The case of hybrid verb constructions as evidence for linguistic transfer through bilingualism and language shift” Paper presented at Spanish Contact, Expansion, and Transformation: 25th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 10th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, March 26-29, 2015, New York City, NY.

Michalski, I. “A sociocultural approach to language policy analysis: The case of language policy and migration politics in the Dominican Republic” Paper presented at 2015 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Diversity an Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives, March 13-15, 2015, Washington, D.C.

Michalski, I. “Variation within a hyper-corrected norm: Intra speaker socio-phonetic domain and style variation among Dominican television reporters” Paper presented at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, November 14-16, 2014, West Lafayette, IN.

Michalski, I. “Questions and Answers ‘Al Punto’: Exploring pragmatic variation in a political interview” Paper presented at The 19th Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, April 24-26, 2014, Bloomington, IN.

Gurzynzki-Weiss, L, Whatley, M & Michalski, I. “Variable subject expression in the written pedagogical materials used for teaching L2 Spanish” Paper presented in “Widening the lens on variation in and across multi-faceted sources of input” a Colloquium of the 2014 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Usage-based Approaches to Language, Language Learning, and Multilingualism, March 14-16, 2014, Washington D.C.

Michalski, I. “Hypercorrection and intra-speaker socio-phonetic variation among Dominican television journalists” Paper presented at Dialogos 11: Graduate Student Research Conference in Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, February 22, 2014, Indiana University, Bloomington IN.

Michalski, I. “Language Ideology, Linguistic Culture and Language Policy in the Dominican Republic” Paper presented at the Indiana University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Shifting Social Landscapes. February, 2013, Bloomington, IN.

Michalski, I. & Michalski, A. “Gringo vs. Jíbaro: US Food Imperialism, Puerto Rico, and the ‘Better Diet’” Paper presented at The 4th Biennial Mercyhurst Colloquium of the Americas: Food and Foodways in the Americas. April 2012, Erie, PA.