Research interests

  • Syntax (particularly long-distance dependencies)
  • Experimental techniques for studying linguistic phenomena
  • Sentence processing
  • Spanish (and Romance languages)
  • Second Language and Heritage Languages

Publications

  • Chai, Yuan, Titus Kubri Kajo Kunda, Alejandro Rodríguez & Sharon Rose. 2022. The prosody of declaratives and questions in Rere (Koalib). In Haruo Kubuzono, Junko Ito & Armin Mester (eds.) Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford University Press. [link]

Presentations

  • Muñoz Sánchez, Alicia, Alejandro Rodríguez & Lorenzo Siánez Jr. 2023. Paisajes lingüísticos como marcadores de inclusión: estudio comparativo de dos universidades en California. Talk to be presented at the 105th AATSP Annual Conference. Salamanca, Spain.
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro & Grant Goodall. 2023. Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish: Island sensitivity without gaps. Talk to be presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Pittsburgh, PA. [stimuli]
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro & Grant Goodall. 2023. Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish: Island sensitivity without gaps. Talk presented at the 5th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics. Los Angeles, CA. [slides]
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro & Grant Goodall. 2021. Do islands affect only filler-gap dependencies? Evidence from Spanish. Talk presented at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (now known as Annual Conference for Human Sentence Processing). Philadelphia, PA. [slides]
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro & Grant Goodall. 2020. On the universality of wh-islands: Evidence from Spanish. Poster presented at the 50th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages. Austin, TX. [poster]
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro. 2020. Wh-questions in Rere. 51st Annual Conference on African Linguistics. New Brunswick, NJ. Cancelled due to COVID.
  • Rodríguez, Alejandro. 2019. Wh-questions in Rere. Talk presented at Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax. Pomona, CA. [handout]