Silvina Montrul is a linguist specializing in generative approaches to
second language acquisition
Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning a language other than one's native language (L1). SLA research examines how learners ...
. She is Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, as well as Second Language Acquisition, at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...
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Career
Montrul received her PhD from
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...
in 1998, under the supervision of
Lydia White
Lydia White (born 1946) is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). She is James McGill Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at McGill University. .
Montrul's research has focused on adult second language acquisition of syntax and morphology. She has published books on incomplete acquisition of language and
heritage speakers, as well as the acquisition of
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
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. She has been named University Scholar for University of Illinois in 2013, and is co-chief editor of the journal ''
Second Language Research''.
In 2025, Montrul was named to the
endowed position of "Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences" at the University of Illinois.
Selected publications
*Montrul, S. (2013) ''El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante''. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
*Montrul, S. (2008) ''Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism. Re-examining the Age Factor.'' Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
*Montrul, S. (2004) ''The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic Development in Monolingual and Bilingual L1 Acquisition and in Adult L2 Acquisition''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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*Montrul, S. (1998) ''Transitivity Alternations in Second Language Acquisition: A Crosslinguistic Study of English, Turkish and Spanish.'' PhD Thesis, McGill University.
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Linguists from the United States
American women linguists
McGill University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty