Refereed Journal Articles

2025

Coetzee, Andries W., Nicholas Henriksen, & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2025). Cross-language interactions of phonetic and phonological processes: Intervocalic plosive lenition in Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47(1), 257–281.

2024

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2024). Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners. Second Language Research, 40(2), 399-429.

2023

Henriksen, Nicholas, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Micha Fischer, Jessica Czapla, Natalie Dakki, Amber Galvano, Sarah Khansa, Ellie Maly, Zoe Phillips, Vidhya Premkumar, Stepan Topouzian, & Thomas Wiaduck. (2023). Perceptions of regional origin and social attributes of phonetic variants used in Iberian Spanish. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 11(2), 119–143.

2022

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2022). An investigation into utterance-fluency patterns of advanced L2 bilinguals Afrikaans and Spanish in Patagonia. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(2), 163-190.

2022

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2022). Exploring the connection between language use and oral proficiency during study abroad: Results from the Daily Language Questionnaire 2. Foreign Language Annals, 55(1), 198-221.

2021

García-Amaya, Lorenzo & Myrna Cintrón-Valentín. (2021). The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar. Modern Language Journal, 105(4), 919-935.

2021

Cintrón-Valentín, M., & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2021). Investigating textual enhancement and captions in L2 grammar and vocabulary: An experimental study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(5), 1068-1093.

2021

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2021). A change of setting: Measuring language use in an overseas immersion context. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 6, 32-58.

2021

Henriksen, Nicholas, Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, & Micha Fischer. (2021). Exploring language dominance through code-switching: Intervocalic voiced stop lenition in Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals. Phonetica, 78(3), 201–240.

2020

García-Amaya, Lorenzo & Sean Lang. (2020). Filled pauses are susceptible to cross-language phonetic influence: Data from Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, (42)5, 1077-1105.

2020

Szpiech, Ryan, Joshua Shapero, Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Paulina Alberto, Victoria Langland, Ellie Johandes, & Nicholas Henriksen. (2020). Afrikaans in Patagonia: Language shift and cultural integration in a rural immigrant community. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 266, 33-54.

2019

Henriksen, Nicholas & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2019). Falsetto in interaction in Western Andalusian Spanish: A pilot study. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, 34, 101-124.

2019

Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna, Lorenzo García-Amaya, & Nick C. Ellis. (2019). Captioning and grammar learning in the L2 Spanish classroom. The Language Learning Journal, 47(4), 439-459.

2017

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2017). Detailing L1 and L2 use in study-abroad research: Data from the Daily Linguistic Questionnaire. System, 71, 60-72.

2012

Henriksen, Nicholas & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2012). Transcription of intonation of Jerezano Andalusian Spanish. Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 21, 109-162.

2008

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2008). The effect of topic on rate of speech. ELIA (Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada), 8, 117-150.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

2024

Coetzee, Andries W., Nicholas Henriksen, & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (In 2024). Patagonian Afrikaans: A remnant variety spoken in South America. In W. Carstens, N. Bosman (Eds.), Afrikaans Linguistics: Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 501–530. SUN Press.

2023

García-Amaya, Lorenzo, Kelly Kendro, & Nicholas Henriksen. (2023). Regional variation, articulation rate, and pausing patterns in three varieties of Spanish. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1449–1453). Guarant International.

2019

García-Amaya, Lorenzo, Harjus Jannis, Henriksen, Nicholas. (2019). Introduction. Andalusian Spanish: The State of the Art. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, 34, 7-13.

2019

Henriksen, Nicholas, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Andries W. Coetzee & Daan Wissing. (2019). Language contact in Patagonia: Durational control in the acquisition of Spanish and Afrikaans phonology. In F. Martínez-Gil & S. Colina (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology (pp. 414-436). New York: Routledge.

2019

Coetzee, Andries, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Jiseung Kim, Daan Wissing & Nicholas Henriksen. (2019). Velar palatalization in Patagonian and South-African Afrikaans: Language and Settlement History in an Expatriate Community. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1610-1614). Canberra, Australia: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

2019

Alberto, Paulina, Ana Silva, Andries W. Coetzee, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Victoria Langland, Ryan Szpiech, Ellie Johandes, & Nicholas Henriksen. (2019). Los otros afro-argentinos: Narrativas raciales de la colectividad sudafricana de la Patagonia del siglo XX. In E. Lamborghini, M. Ghidoli, & J. F. Martínez Peria (Eds.), Estudios Latinoamericanos 4: Actas de las Sextas Jornadas del GEALA (pp. 175-190). Buenos Aires: Editions of the Cultural Center of the Floreal Gorini Cooperation.

2018

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2018). Utterance fluency in the study abroad context: An overview of research methodologies. In C. Sanz & A. Morales-Front (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice (pp. 181-192). New York: Routledge.

2016

Henriksen, Nicholas, Meghan E. Armstrong, & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2016). The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech. In M. Armstrong, N. Henriksen, & M. Vanrell (Eds.), Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields (pp. 181-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2015

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2015). A longitudinal study of filled pauses and silent pauses in second language speech. In R. Lickley (Ed.), The 7th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2015). Edinburgh, UK: the University of Edinburgh.

2015

Coetzee, Andries W., Lorenzo García-Amaya, Nicholas Henriksen, & Daan Wissing. (2015). Bilingual speech rhythm: Spanish-Afrikaans in Patagonia. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow.

2012

Abelló-Contesse, Christián & Lorenzo García-Amaya. (2012). Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. In C.A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: WileyBlackwell.

2012

Geeslin, Kimberly L., Lorenzo García-Amaya, Maria Hasler-Barker, Nicholas C. Henriksen & Jason Killam. (2012). Variability and the L2 acquisition of perfective past time reference in Spanish in an abroad immersion setting. In K. Geeslin & M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (pp. 197-213). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2010

Geeslin, Kimberly L., Lorenzo García-Amaya, Maria Hasler-Barker, Nicholas C. Henriksen & Jason Killam. (2010). The development of variation in clitic pronouns among Spanish L2 learners in an abroad immersion program. In C. Borgonovo, M. Español Echevarría & P. Prévost (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (pp. 246-259). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2009

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2009). New findings on fluency measures across three different learning contexts. In J. Collentine, M. García, B. Lafford & F. Marcos-Marín (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 68-80). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2008

García-Amaya, Lorenzo. (2008). Variable norms in the production of /θ/ in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In J.F. Siegel, T.C. Nagle, A. Lorente-Lapole & J. Auger (Eds.), IUWPL7: Gender in Language: Classic Questions, New Contexts (pp. 49-71) Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications.