College of Arts and Humanities

Juan Berríos

Assistant Professor

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | Office: PB518

jb25@csufresno.edu

Education

University of Pittsburgh - Ph.D., M.A.
Auburn University - M.A.
Universidad Central de Venezuela - B.A.

Courses Taught

Basic Principles of Translation (SPAN 115A)
Essentials of Medical Interpreting (SPAN 114A)

Juan Berríos is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, where he completed his B.A. (Licenciatura) in Translation and Interpreting. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. His research encompasses individual and collaborative projects on linguistics, translation and interpreting, and data science. Dr. Berríos is also an experienced language teacher and a practicing translator and interpreter. You can read more about his recent work on his personal website and ResearchGate profile.

Second language acquisition
Translation and interpreting
Sociolinguistics
Language teaching
Data science
Variation and change in Romance
Translator and interpreter training
Computational linguistics

Kanwit, M., & Berríos, J. (2023). Corpora, cognition, and usage-based approaches. In M. Díaz-Campos & S. Balasch (Eds.), The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics (pp. 269-286). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119839859.ch15
Swain, A., Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (2023). Exploring future-in-the-past variation in Seville and Caracas: ¿Cambiaría o iba a cambiar? In S. Fernández Cuenca, T. Judy, & L. Miller (Eds.), Innovative approaches to research in Hispanic linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation (pp. 58-80). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.38.03swa
Kanwit, M., & Berríos, J. (2021). No se sabía de que eso iba a pasar: Do lexical frequency and structural priming condition dequeísmo? In M. Díaz-Campos (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of variationist approaches to Spanish (pp. 453-467). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-41