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

Graduate

The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language

Undergraduate

Applied Spanish Linguistics
Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Basic Principles of Translation
Advanced Translation
Essentials of Medical Interpreting
Advanced Medical Interpreting
Essentials of Legal Interpreting

Juan Berríos is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, where he completed his B.A. (Licenciatura) in Translation and Interpreting. He holds an M.A. in Spanish from Auburn University and a Ph.D./M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. His research encompasses individual and collaborative projects on language acquisition, sociolinguistic variation, and bilingualism. 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.

Hispanic Linguistics
Second language acquisition
Computational linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Translation and interpreting
Language teaching
Data science

Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (2024). Progressive aspect across temporalities: variation between synthetic and analytic forms in L1 and L2 Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17(2), 161–195. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2024-2008
Berríos, J., Swain, A., & Fricke, M. (2023). Implementing the map task in applied linguistics research: What, how, and why,. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), 100081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100081
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.ch1
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