Eva M. Fernández

Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Communication Disorders
Director, Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning

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RESEARCH


My primary research interest lies in the way human language is produced and perceived, with a special focus on whether there exist cross-linguistic differences in human language processing, and whether there exist differences based on the speaker/hearer's language history.  My work examines processing in speaker/hearers of different languages, in particular, speaker/hearers of English and speaker/hearers of Spanish.  I am additionally concerned with whether and how differences in language history affect language processing, a topic I investigate by comparing the performance of speaker/hearers who have only been exposed to one language (monolinguals) to the performance of speaker/hearers who have been exposed to more than one language (bilinguals and polyglots).

I have a secondary research interest in matters related to teaching and learning, particularly on the impact of technology in higher education.


Publications

Fernández, E. M. (2007). How might a rapid serial visual presentation of text affect the prosody projected implicitly during silent reading? Conferências do V Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasiliera de Lingüística, 5, 117-154.

Fernández, E. M. (2008). No hay monolingües. Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College, 5 (Spring 2008), 3-6.

Hernández, A., Fernández, E. M. & Aznar-Besé, N. (2007). Bilingual sentence processing. In G. Gaskell (ed.), Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 371-384). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fernández, E. M. (2007). Toward an enlightened use of technology at Queens. Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College, 4 (Spring 2007), 14-15.

Maia, M., Fernández, E. M., Costa, A. & Lourenço-Gomes, M. do C. (2007). Early and late preferences in relative clause attachment in Spanish and Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 5-2/6-1, 227-250.

Fernández, E. M. (2006). How do language learners build syntactic structure on-line? Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 1, 59-64.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). The prosody produced by Spanish-English bilinguals: A preliminary investigation and implications for sentence processing. Revista da ABRALIN, 4, 1, 109-141.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Os bilingües são como dois monolíngües em uma única pessoa? Evidências da pesquisa sobre a ambigüidade de aposição de orações relativas. (Are bilinguals like two monolinguals in one person? Evidence from research on the relative clause attachment ambiguity.) In M. Maia & I. Finger (eds.), Processamento da linguagem (pp. 179-200). Pelotas, Brazil: Educat.

Vasishth, S., Agnihotri, R. K., Fernández, E. M. & Bhatt, R. (2005). Noun modification preferences in Hindi. In Proceedings of Construction of Knowledge conference, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, India.

Maia, M., Costa, A., Fernández, E. & Lourenço-Gomes, M. do C. (2004). A compreensão de orações relativas ambíguas em Português Brasileiro e Europeu: Um estudo comparativo. ("The comprehension of ambiguous relative clauses in Brazilian and European Portuguese: A contrastive study.") Revista da ABRALIN, 3 (1-2), 11-39.

Sekerina, I., Fernández, E. & Petrova, K. (2004). Relative clause attachment in Bulgarian. In O. Arnaudova, W. Browne, M. L Rivero, & D. Stojanović (eds.), Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Ottawa Meeting 2003 (pp. 375-394). Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. Also to appear (in Bulgarian) in Contrastive Linguistics, 8 pp.

Fernández, E. M. (2003).  Bilingual sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.

Fernández, E. M. (2002). Relative clause attachment in bilinguals and monolinguals. In R.R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (eds.), Bilingual sentence processing. Elsevier Science Publishers.

Fernández, E. M. (2001). Dissertation summary, Bilingual sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish. Glot International, 5, 8, 275-281.

Fernández, E. M. (2000). Book review: Cook, V.J., Linguistics and second language acquisition. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 3, 335-341.

Fernández, E. M. (1999). Processing strategies in second language acquisition: Some preliminary results. In E.C. Klein & G. Martohardjono (eds.), The development of second language grammars: A generative approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers, 217-239.

Fernández, E. M. (1998). Language dependency in parsing: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual processing. In M. Brysbaert (ed.), Psychologica Belgica, 38-3/4, 197-230.

Rieber, R. W., Vetter, H. J. & Fernández, E. M. (1995). Psychopathology and the polyglot. Chapter 8 in The psychopathology of language and cognition (pp. 151-178). New York, NY: Plenum Press.


Edited Volumes

Sekerina, I., Fernández, E. M. & Clahsen, H. (eds.) (2008). Language processing in children. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins Publishers.

Fernández, E. M. (2003). Selected papers from the 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32, 1 & 2.


Presentations

Fernández, E. M., Scott, D., Lord, K., Callis, C. & denBoer, M. (2008). From theory to practice: The design and implementation of a new general education curriculum at Queens College. Presentation at the Fourth Annual CUNY General Education Conference, Gen Ed: Making it work and making it matter, May 2, Baruch College, New York, NY.

Stoyneshka, I., Fodor, J. D. & Fernández, E. M. (2008). Phoneme restoration methods reveal prosodic influences on syntactic processing. Paper presented at Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody, April 11-13, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Abstract: http://phonetics.cornell.edu/people/chael/ abstracts/talks/stoyneshka.pdf

Fernández, E. M. (2007). Effects on ambiguity resolution caused by the timing of RSVP presentations emulate effects caused by explicit prosody. Poster presented at 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-31, San Diego, CA.

Fernández, E. M. (2007). Discussão: Prosódia implícita e processamento de frases ("Discussion: Implicit prosody and sentence processing"). Paper presented at ABRALIN Conference, March 2007, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Costa, A., Maia, M., Fernández, E. M. & Lourenço-Gomes, M. do C. (2006). Early and late preferences in relative clause attachment in Brazilian and European Portuguese. Poster presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 23-25, New York, NY.

Fekete, M., Dowling, C., Henderson, S., Husain, N. & Fernández, E. M. (2006). Framework for the digital classroom. Paper presented at ThinkTank06, June 7-9, South Orange, NJ.

Koizumi, Y., Bradley, D., Fernández, E. M. & Fodor, J. D. (2006a). Pragmatics & prosody in interpreting not-because sentences. Paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, June 22-25, East Lansing, MI.

Koizumi, Y., Bradley, D., Fernández, E. M. & Fodor, J. D. (2006b). Explaining the preference for narrow-scope negation in not-because sentences. Paper presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 23-25, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Variabilidad en la prosodia del bilingüe. ("Variability in bilingual prosody.") Paper presented at ALFAL 2005, Monterrey, Mexico.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Bilingual and monolingual prosody in Spanish and English: Similarities and differences, and implications for sentence processing. Poster presented at the 1st ASA Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning, May 14-15, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Poster: <http://www.sfu.ca/~spchlab/A11.pdf>.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Examining the prosody produced by Spanish-English bilinguals: Promising results, methodological challenges. Paper presented at the Annual RISLUS Forum, May 27, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Bilingual and monolingual prosody in Spanish and English: Similarities and differences, and implications for sentence processing. Paper presented at Psycholinguistics Supper Club, May 3, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). Prosody in Spanish/English bilinguals: Some observations and implications for sentence processing. Paper presented at SUNY New Paltz, April 11, New Paltz, NY.

Fernández, E. M. (2005). The prosody produced by Spanish and English bilinguals: Some observations and implications for sentence processing. Paper presented at IV Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN, February 17-19, Brasilia, Brazil.

Maia, M., Costa, A., Fernández, E. M. & Lourenço-Gomes, M. do C. (2005). A comprensão de orações relativas ambiguas em portugês brasileiro e europeu—um estudo comparativo. Paper presented at IV Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN, February 17-19, Brasilia, Brazil.

Fernández, E. M. (2004). “Comparable materials”. Paper presented at the Bilingualism Research Forum, June 24, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. (2004). Reading English, reading Spanish: How two urban student populations differ in a speeded reading task. Paper presented at the 2004 Research Forum of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society, May 14, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. & Sainz, J. (2004). Early preferences in RC attachment in Spanish: Two methods, and disambiguation by number agreement. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and mechanisms for Language Processing) 2004, September 16-18, Aix-en-Provence, France.  (PDF)

Shaked, A., Bradley, D. & Fernandez, E. M. (2004). Relative Clause Attachment in Hebrew: Free versus Construct State Nominals. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and mechanisms for Language Processing) 2004, September 16-18, Aix-en-Provence, France.  (PDF)

Vasishth, S., Agnihotri, R. K., Fernández, E. M. & Bhatt, R. (2004). Relative clause attachment in Hindi: Effects of RC length and RC placement. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and mechanisms for Language Processing) 2004, September 16-18, Aix-en-Provence, France.  (PDF)

Fernández, E. M. (2004). Reading English, reading Spanish: How two urban student populations differ in a speeded reading task. Paper presented at the 2004 Research Forum of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society, May 14, New York, NY.

Fernández, E. M. & Bradley, D. (2004). Acoustic correlates of phrasing patterns in English and Spanish sentences containing the RC attachment construction. Paper presented at the 5th Annual SUNY/CUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference, May 1, Stony Brook, NY.  (PPT)

Fernández, E. M. & Bradley, D. (2004). Exploring the prosody of the RC attachment construction in English and Spanish. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 25-27, College Park, MD.  (PDF)

Fernández, E. M., Bradley, D., Igoa, J. M. & Teira, C. (2003).  Prosodic phrasing in the RC-attachment ambiguity: Effects of language, RC- length, and position. Paper presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) 2003, August 25-27, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.  (PPT)

Bradley, D., Fernández, E. M. & Lovrić, N. (2003).  Overt prosody in the RC-attachment construction: Elicitation protocols. Poster presented at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) 2003, August 25-27, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.  (PDF)

Fernández, E. M., Bradley, D. & Taylor, D. (2003).  Prosodic weight & informativeness in RC attachment: Monolingual evidence, bilingual implications. Paper presented at the 2003 RISLUS Research Forum, May 20, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Sekerina, I., Petrova, K. A. & Fernández, E. M. (2003). Relative clause attachment in Bulgarian. Paper presented at FASL-12 (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics), May 9-11, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Bradley, D., Fernández, E. M. & Taylor, D. (2003).  Prosodic weight versus information load in the relative clause attachment ambiguity. Paper presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.  (PPT)

Fernández, E. M., Fodor, J. D., de Almeida, R. G., Bradley, D. & Quinn, D. (2003).  Relative clause attachment in Canadian French: Prosodic boundary or F0-matching? Poster presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.  (PDF)

Fernández, E. M. (2002).  Are bilinguals like two monolinguals in one person? Evidence from research in sentence processing.  Paper presented at the CUNY Academy Junior Faculty Series, November 25, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY.  (PPT)