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Latino populations in New Destination Communities
of the U.S. South
Edited by Stephen Fafulas and Chad Howe
This edited volume offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to documenting the social and linguistic experiences of Latino communities across the U.S. Southeast. The volume focuses on (i) the linguistic practices of distinct speaker populations, including heritage language speakers and speakers of Indigenous languages, and (ii) community contexts in which language use is reflected in patterns of social engagement.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Fafulas, S., Méndez, L., Berríos, J., Perry, J., Holt, Y., Winnick, C. Subject expression and cross-linguistic interference among bilingual Latino children in eastern North Carolina. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Bilingualism.
Fafulas, S., Howe, C., Orozco, R., Cipria, A., O’Rourke, E., Moreno, N., & Van Hoose, M. J. (2024). The SEC Spanish Consortium: Foundations for Linguistic Gratuity and Language Documentation Among Latinx Populations in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South. Languages, 9(11), 354.
Killam, J., Fafulas, S., & Díaz-Campos, M. (2024). Una historia de la enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos. International Journal of Foreign Languages, 21, 121–138.
Perry, J., Kotlarek, K., Mendez, L., Holt, Y., Fafulas, S., & Broadwell, K. (2019). Nasometric Comparison Between Spanish-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 56(3), 331–339.
Méndez, L., Perry, J., Holt, Y., Bian, H., & Fafulas, S. (2018). Same or different: Narrative retells in bilingual Latino kindergarten children. Bilingual Research Journal, 41(2), 150–166.
BOOK CHAPTERS/ CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Fafulas, S., Guo, J., Berríos, J., & Geeslin, K. (2025). A study of lexical bases and variation of progressive constructions in the Spanish of English-speaking learners. In Kanwit et al. (Eds.), Research at the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin (pp. 10–34). John Benjamins.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION/UNDER REVIEW
Holt, Y., Kotlarek, K., Mendez, L., Perry, J., Fafulas, S., & Herndon, A. Speech acoustics and resonance characteristics of children in the southern United States.
Fafulas, S., Méndez, L., Perry, J., Holt, Y., Berríos, J. & Winnick, C. Subject pronoun expression and gender-based differences among bilingual Latino children in eastern North Carolina.
Fafulas, S. Attitudes towards Spanish in the rural South: Dual Language Immersion in eastern North Carolina elementary schools.
Mentoring Students
through SoCIOLing Lab
Dr. Fafulas directs the Study of Communities, Involvement & Outreach and Linguistics (SoCIOLing) Laboratory, through which he trains students to observe linguistic phenomena through interdisciplinary perspectives and mentors them in designing original research with bilingual communities globally.
